Few vulnerabilities in Opera - DinSide

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DinSide In Symantec’s annual threat report for the Internet shows that Norwegian Opera is least susceptible to vulnerabilities among the five most commonly used browsers. A total of 891 vulnerabilities were reported in 2012, compared to 351 years before.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, the Apple Safari. Also Chrome experienced a sharp increase in the number of reported vulnerabilities since 2011.

Less share IE error

Most surprising perhaps is that Internet Explorer also comes very well out in the report. Only seven percent of the reported vulnerabilities in 2012 came to Internet Explorer, compared with 14 percent the year before. It is remarkable, given that it is still one of the most widely used browsers.

For extension installed in your browser for well over 40 percent of all reported vulnerabilities Java and Flash, according to Symantec.

Source: Symantec

More happens in the browser

And it is undoubtedly the browser most hackers now see their chance to infect your PC, according to the company.

– More and more of what we do at work or privately via the web takes place in one way or another browser. Therefore subjected browsers for a larger amount of potentially unreliable content than the other applications we use, says Roger Ison-pile Symantec Norway in a comment.

Keep your PC updated

In order to be better prepared against the latest security holes you should always make sure you have the latest updated version of your browser. Most browsers as well as Java and Flash, now do this automatically, so even if it is found more holes in some browsers than others and also does not necessarily mean that you live unsafe.

Also remember to have updated antivirus and antispyware Software. Windows 8 has this built in, for other Windows versions are several good free solutions, articles on the topic can be found here.