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Security Report: Attacks on Vista a Fraction of Attacks on XP
According to a new report, browser-based attacks were far more prevalent on systems running Windows XP. Here's an excerpt.
For browser-based attacks on Windows XP-based machines, Microsoft vulnerabilities accounted for 42% of the total. On Windows Vista-based machines, however, the proportion of vulnerabilities attacked in Microsoft software was much smaller, accounting for just 6% of the total.The report, which covers the first half of 2008 ("1H08"), comes from Microsoft but includes data collected from the Open Security Foundation's OSF Data Loss Database. In addition to information on browser-based exploits, the report highlights a couple interesting security-breach trends:
- The top reason reported for data loss through a security breach in 1H08 continued to be stolen equipment such as laptop computers (37.2% of all data-loss incidents reported).
- Although showing a slight increase over 2H07, less than 23% of reported security breaches in 1H08 resulted from incidents classified as "hack" attacks.
