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Supplemental Data for Calculating Mozilla Patching Speed

A couple of days ago, Secunia published their Secunia 2008 Report , and one of their tables garnered quite a bit of attention with respect to Mozilla patching quickly: Brian Krebs , Washington Post, Fanning the Flames of the Browser Security Wars Brian Read More...
Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 10:34 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments

Firefox in 2008 – No Single Version Available for The Full Year?

I’ve been busy doing analysis for the next article in my cio.com Firefox series of articles, looking at vulnerability disclosures during 2007 and 2008 and I stumbled upon a little factoid that I had not previously noticed – no single version of Firefox Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:58 PM by jrjones | 7 Comments

Perception: Case in Point

I love it when a good, real-life example falls right into your lap. As you know from my recent posts, I’ve been doing a series of articles probing Mozilla and Firefox security claims.  I think I’ve been pretty open about why, but I always seem to Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:38 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments

CIO.COM: Mozilla and “Counting Still Easy…”

[DISCLOSURE for those who don’t read about boxes: I work for Microsoft.] I admit that I enjoy discussing issues and digging into claims to see if I can find fractures or flaws in logic. When I ran product management teams for companies in previous roles, Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:03 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

Brian Krebs Blog on ‘at Risk’ Chart Methodology

I am a couple of articles into my series: Can Mozilla Support Claims of Firefox Being the Most Secure Web Browser? , and Can Mozilla Support Claims of Firefox Being the Most Secure Web Browser? (Part 2) In part 2, I probed Mozilla’s usage of an ‘at risk’ Read More...
Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 6:57 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

CIO.COM: Can Mozilla Support Their Security Claims?

Mozilla bills Firefox as the most secure Web browser on the planet, but is it really? Follow along with this series and see if the claims hold up to close scrutiny. Today, I started a multi-part article series on cio.com (Security landing page: http://www.cio.com/topic/1419/Security Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:24 AM by jrjones | 28 Comments

Download: Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis

Summary: For most people, their web browser is central to their interaction with the Internet, connecting to global web sites and helping them consume online services providing everything from booking flights to banking services to online shopping. This Read More...
Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 4:01 PM by jrjones | 24 Comments
Attachment(s): ie-firefox-vuln-analysis.pdf

December 2006 Catch-up

Well, between the Holidays and 2 weeks of being sick, I didn't stay very current during December. So, to get back on track, I thought I'd create this summary, backdate it to December 31 (today is January 2nd, 2007), just so I can share my comments on Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 5:38 PM by jrjones | 0 Comments

New Firefox (sort of) Available

I had heard that the Firefox update would be coming out last week, then I heard the 12th and then I heard the 14th. Looks like it is out on the ftp server now: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.7/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.5.0.7.exe Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:58 PM by jrjones | 0 Comments

Mozilla Chief Security Something-or-Other

Well, I've had a busy couple of weeks, including selling a house, buying a house and moving - which didn't leave much free time for blogging, so I am a bit behind on current events. So, let me start the catch-up with a human interest post. Window Snyder, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:32 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments
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