Safari has more security vulnerabilities than all other major browsers combined

Apple's Safari has more security vulnerabilities than Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer combined, according to a new report from Google's Project Zero. Using an automated testing tool called Domato, Project Zero's Ivan Fratric analyzed the most popular desktop browsers and discovered two security vulnerabilities in Chrome, four in Firefox and Internet Explorer, six in Edge and 17 in Safari. The bugs were discovered by subjecting the browsers to about 100,000,000 iterations using Domato. Fratric notes that it "requires fuzzing at scale, but it is still well within the pay range of a determined attacker." The cost… [Continue Reading]