Enterprise application whitelisting company Bit9 launched an attention-getting press release last week, a document which merely bubbled for a few days until the recent Internet Explorer flaw took center stage and Mozilla pushed out a few Firefox updates. Eventually, the heat under the issue boiled over, prompting Mozilla to tackle the Bit9 report on its Mozilla Security Blog. Backing up the truck, Bit9 revealed its annual ranking of threats in plain sight — “The Dirty Dozen” of 2008’s most popular applications with critical security vulnerabilities.
