A comprehensive new study of online surfing habits released today found that only 60 percent of the planet’s Internet users surf the Web with the latest, most-secure versions of their preferred Web browsers. The study (PDF), conducted by researchers from Google, IBM and the Communication Systems Group in Switzerland, relied on data from server logs provided by Google for search requests between Jan. 2007 and June 2008. The researchers found that of the 1.4 billion Internet users worldwide at the end of March 2008, 576 million surfed with outdated versions of Web browsers. The researchers also concluded that as a group, Mozilla Firefox users were the most likely to be using the latest, most secure and stable version of the browser: 83.3 percent of Firefox users were found to have the latest version installed at any given time. That’s notably more than Web surfers using the latest versions of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 at 6:46 pm and under category News, Security.
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