Symantec's new report on security contains some interesting data about Firefox. In the authors' opinions, Firefox is getting more attention than Internet Explorer from hackers and therefore it is more vulnerable.

The report says that 25 flaws have been reported over the six months for Firefox, 18 of them being rated as high severity. The high severity rating means an exploit that takes advantage of a flaw, the consequence being the system's compromise.

For Internet Explorer, 13 vulnerabilities have been identified, only 8 of them being rated as high severity.

Symantec takes into account only the flaws acknowledged by the producers, the ones reported by the security organizations being disregarded. For the same period, Secunia reported 19 flaws for Internet Explorer and only three for Firefox.

But the issue is a little bit more complicated and Symantec admits that among the flaws, only Internet Explorer's were exploited.


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