Hi, A Microsoft employee blogged that three (patched!) security holes now make Java the most attacked (third-party?) software on Windows, going from about 500k attacks in Q2 to about 6 mill. in Q3. This compares to less than 100k attacks against Adobe Reader: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/10/18/have-you-checked-the-java.aspx
This is Microsoft and only includes data from Windows machines with Microsoft anti-malware software, so I take it with a big grain of salt. For instance, Flash had a couple of patches for security holes, too - didn't anybody attack this? If the data is true, however, then the interesting thing is that those security holes have been patched a while ago, suggesting that the JRE auto update functionality doesn't work well enough - or too many people use an older JRE/JDK. Between the security holes in Flash, Adobe Reader and Java, I can see Steve Jobs smile somewhere. ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
