Are you using the latest web browser?

Written by Thomas Duebendorfer

In view of mass defacements of hundreds of thousand of web pages – with the intent to misuse them to launch drive-by download attacks – security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems were interested in looking at the other side of the attack: the web browser. By analyzing the web browser versions seen in visits to Google websites, they have shown that more than 600 million Internet users don’t use the latest version of their browser.

Slow migration to latest browser version
The researchers’ paper, entitled “Understanding the Web Browser Threat”, shows…