Three Applications That Will Cause Us Security Headaches For At Least Three Years

By Rich | February 6, 2008
  1. Internet Explorer/ActiveX
  2. QuickTime
  3. Adobe Acrobat Reader

Each of these applications has plugin architectures and inadequate security models. Actually, IE 7 + Vista is a good model, but it will take 3 years for it to hit wide enough deployment.

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PDF Security Pain: We Told You So | securosis.com 2008-09-23
[...] Back in February I mentioned three applications that are a real pain in our security behinds- IE/ActiveX, QuickTime, and Adobe Acrobat (the entire pdf format, to be honest). It's nice to see a little validation. Each of these, in their own way, allows expansion of their formats. [...]
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windexh8er 2008-02-06
You forgot Skype. :)
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windexh8er 2008-02-06
Oh and Java… http://secunia.com/blog/20/