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Comment Re:Doh! (Score 1) 374

by olewis (#28071207) Attached to: US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista
There is much more to this. It's not just Army systems being upgraded, it's all of DoD and ultimately, all federal desktops. What is being rolled out (and has been for some time) is the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) (http://cit.nih.gov/Support/FAQ/FDCC/)(http://www.gcn.com/Articles/2008/08/01/FDCC-model-branches-out.aspx). FDCC started out as the USAF Standard Desktop Configuration (http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/c/4/5c46c4a0-950f-40a9-9a8f-9af4a2869bc2/WhitePaper_FDCC%20AirForce.doc)(http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123020383). FDCC is mandated for all federal systems (http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/omb-deadline-for-fdcc-compliance-looming/) and the Dec 2009 deadline is for all DoD systems, which means millions of workstations.

Browser Vulnerability Study Unkind to Firefox 253

Posted by timothy from the still-beats-IE-on-my-linux-boxes dept.
Browser Buddy writes "A new Symantec study on browser vulnerabilities covering the first half of 2006 has some surprising conclusions. It turns out that Firefox leads the pack with 47 vulnerabilities, compared to 38 for Internet Explorer. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'In addition to leading the pack in sheer number of vulnerabilities, Firefox also showed the greatest increase in number, as the popular open-source browser had only logged 17 during the previous reporting period. IE saw an increase of just over 50 percent, from 25; Safari doubled its previous six; and Opera was the only one of the four browsers monitored that actually saw a decrease in vulnerabilities, from nine to seven.' Firefox still leads the pack when it comes to patching though, with only a one-day window of vulnerability."

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