Opera News

Opera shown to be the most secure browser by Symantec

By Joseph D. Lienjdlien. Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:42:35 PM

symantec, vulnerabilities, security, opera

Opera has the best security record for 2009

Each year the Enterprise Security division of Symantec (the makers of Antivirus software like Norton Antivirus) publishes a report on the state of Internet security and threats. The report released this month gives statistics about the major browsers, and their findings are showing Opera to be very secure. An article in Norway's digi.no IT website (Norwegian, here is a translation in English) sums the part of the report that talks about browsers, and it's very interesting to know for anyone who cares about keeping out of harm's way on the Web.

In 2009, Opera was one of the browsers with the shortest window of exposure before exploits were fixed, averaging less than one day. Opera also had the fewest vulnerabilities of all major browsers, with a total of only 25 in comparison to 169 for the browser with the most.

This goes to show that Opera Software is dedicated to security, and we've proven that by having the most secure browser, and by responding as quickly as possible to any security threats that are found. Our company culture is such that we put a great emphasis on security. You can even learn more about Web security from our Security Group blog.

YouTube fixed!What will the browser look like in five years?

Comments

Rafael Luikrafaelluik # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:16:46 PM

MeanEYEmeaneye-rcf # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:57:06 PM

Good for us

... Opera users...

Diego Schildtekonaza # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:59:22 PM

Yeah! \m/

Abhinavdecodedthought # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:01:52 PM

opera

Charles SchlossChas4 # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:08:10 PM

jacobianjacobian64 # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:11:55 PM

well I love opera then. :-)

sirnh1 # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:22:18 PM

Tamil # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 2:40:58 PM

DrillSarge # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:10:43 PM

nice.

wtf @firefox oO :|

SorrowKadae # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:12:02 PM

Opera Forever.

Number99 # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:15:00 PM

d4rkn1ght # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:57:17 PM

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:41:44 PM

Plugin-blocking feature also, I think, widely increase safety. Flash and Acrobat Reader are the most attacked technologies…

IKoke # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:41:04 PM

The fastet browser and the most secure browser

jottosson # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:50:51 PM

I heard there was a "hacking conference" a couple of weeks ago where hackers competed in hacking different browsers. However, they left out Chrome as it was "pretty much impossible to hack" (as one hacker put it). Sadly, Opera wasn't mentioned at all. Does anyone know how come? It would be really interesting to read a hackers point of view regarding Opera safety where he/she specified the issues.

Rafael Luikrafaelluik # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:47:27 PM

Originally posted by jottosson:

Sadly, Opera wasn't mentioned at all.

TheRegister cites Opera as the browser the hackers use to stay safe:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/pwn2own_2010_day_one/

In Portuguese, Peopleware cited Opera in the article (despite the big logo saying Chrome's the winner):
http://pplware.sapo.pt/informacao/pwn2own-2010-–-chrome-e-o-incontestavel-vencedor/

IMO, no hacker wanted to hack Opera, they prefer to attack the old known bugs of Firefox and IE than exploring and failing on trying to attack Opera.

And... Google is one of the sponsors. Microsoft too.

HAHA LOOK AT WHAT I JUST DISCOVERED:
http://www.pc1news.com/news/1303/hackers-target-google-chrome.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/google_chrome_trojan/
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/04/20/malware_masquerading_as_google_chrome_extension/

ojone # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:02:38 PM

i realy dont understand this aspect at all pls want learn more.

Lucalucaviozzi # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:18:16 PM

Always the best!

techlawsam # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:45:40 PM

heck ya! Norton certifies Opera to be the most secure!

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:42:18 AM

Now if only Symantec could keep its online shopping cart from getting pwned. Still, very encouraging news.

Harish Lakshminarayanaharish-l # Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:16:23 AM

not that i care for what norton says, but still a positive viewpoint towards Opera is always welcome.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:15:45 PM

I have now read the entire white paper; you couldn't get much safer unless you browsed with...Netrik.

₣ıđø Ðıđø™faridfox # Friday, April 23, 2010 10:04:44 PM

Rafael Luikrafaelluik # Friday, April 23, 2010 11:57:49 PM

Originally posted by hellspork:

you couldn't get much safer unless you browsed with...Netrik.

Netrik page says: "Opera is full-featured, but it is ugly proprietary software, and it isn't very fast nor stable nor compatibile either."
WTF?? Does a software need to be open-source to be good? Isn't Opera enough fast? Isn't Opera compatible with the webpages?? Should we throw Acid3 and Sputnik in the trash? ¬¬
These outdated pages made by stupid people...