Company Bit9 served with the most recent chart, which talks about the software application that had the most dangerous security holes, this year. Most of them were counted in Google Chrome. Right behind him on the scale we find yet another browser, namely Apple’s Safari and third place it occupies Microsoft’s Office software package.
More detailed figures show that this year Chrome has had 76 dangerous holes, Safari 60, Office 57. Namely chart consists of quite a few applications. Let’s look at them: Adobe and Acrobat Reader (54 holes), Mozilla Firefox (51), Sun Java Development Kit (36), Adobe Shockwave Player (35), Microsoft Internet Explorer (32), RealNetworks RealPlayer (14), Apple’s WebKit (9), Adobe Flash Player (8), Apple QuickTime (6) and Opera (6).
In this chart, it is necessary to add that it is not necessary that the highest ranking applications are actually the most dangerous. It is necessary to say that companies that own the browser, the public much more inform about new security holes. Very important is also the time needed to process for their applications eliminate certain security hole.
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