Comment Re:firefox.. (Score 1) 69
While using Firefox may reduce the number of browser holes that can be exploited (or at least shift them around, particularly when you factor in extensions), it's still easy to get trashed.
Attackers are finding that it's easier to attack apps that are used with common file formats (Word doc, Excel spreadsheet, PDF, video, etc.) than to try to compromise the browser. Combine that with new morphing-code toolkits and pretty much anybody who wants to can create stuff that gets past any signature- or behavior-based defenses.
That's why virtualization is starting to be talked about in the mainstream (Gartner, press, etc.) as an alternative to the nonsensical choice of (a) "don't open anything, anywhere" and (b) "hope-as-a-strategy" (hope that you don't hit anything).
Attackers are finding that it's easier to attack apps that are used with common file formats (Word doc, Excel spreadsheet, PDF, video, etc.) than to try to compromise the browser. Combine that with new morphing-code toolkits and pretty much anybody who wants to can create stuff that gets past any signature- or behavior-based defenses.
That's why virtualization is starting to be talked about in the mainstream (Gartner, press, etc.) as an alternative to the nonsensical choice of (a) "don't open anything, anywhere" and (b) "hope-as-a-strategy" (hope that you don't hit anything).
