Absolutely crazy, but a BANK (not security professionals) is telling everyone that IE6 is MORE secure than either Chrome or Opera browsers, and as a result, will no longer support either Opera or Chrome! Instead, they want people to use either Safari, IE or Firefox, while they'll continue to support IE6. If it comes to banking matters, I'll listen to bankers. When it comes to security, why would I listen to bankers?
Allow me to illustrate how ridiculously insane those folks at JP Morgan Chase really are.
According to 2010 Symantic's Global Internet Security Threat Report, in 2009, the browser with the most vulnerabilities was Firefox (169) followed by Safari (94), Internet Explorer (45), Chrome (41) and Opera (25).
They've just directed their banking customers to use the 3 most vulnerable platforms!
Not to mention, Microsoft issued a statement earlier this year, following the discovery of a major vulnerability in IE6 running on Windows XP, "We recommend users of IE6 on Windows XP upgrade to a new version of Internet Explorer."
You know who's dropping IE6 support? Most everyone else, that's who. Google's eliminating support for IE6 (and getting rid of it in their corporate offices) as a result of the vulnerability within it, that allowed hackers in China unfettered access to Google's internal servers.
You have to wonder, is it safe to do your banking at JP Morgan Chase???
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