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ymantec Corp. has released its eighth volume of the Internet Security Threat Report, one of the most comprehensive sources of internet threat data in the world. The semi-annual report, covering the six-month period from 1 January to 30 June 2005, identified new methods of using malicious code for financial gain with increasing frequency to target desktops rather than enterprise perimeters. "

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According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied," the report's authors stated. Eighteen of these flaws were classified as high severity.

"During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," the report noted.

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“Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters and toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at web and client-side applications,� said Richard Batchelar, country manager, Symantec New Zealand. “As the threat landscape continues to change, users need to be diligent in keeping systems up-to-date with security patches and security solutions.�