Test Center: How secure is Internet Explorer?

The world's most popular browser is also the most frequently attacked, but comes with controls and management capabilities other browsers can't match

By Roger A. Grimes
January 29, 2009
Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser has lost market share to worthy competitors over the last few years, it is still the market leader and remains the browser to beat. IE has many significant security features and enterprise options that cannot be easily discounted. Unfortunately for its many users, IE's dominance and complexity have made it the browser to attack. IE is also the only browser natively vulnerable to ActiveX control exploits.

From a security standpoint, it doesn't pay to be popular. IE has had at least 70 announced vulnerabilities over the last two years, a frequency rivaled only by the second most popular browser, Mozilla Firefox. Firefox 3.0 has seen at least 39 vulnerabilities in six months. By contrast, Opera 9.x has seen 45 in two years, while Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome have 26 and 10 announced vulnerabilities, respectively, in their short lives

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