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[Nvyseal]

images/news/security.jpgThe year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I’ve compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista and placed them side by side. This is significant because it shows a trend that can give us a good estimate for how many flaws we can expect to find in the coming months. The more monthly flaws there are in the historical trend, the more likely it is that someone will find a hole to exploit in the future. For example back in April of this year, hackers took over a fully patched Macbook and won $10,000 plus the Macbook they hacked.

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So this shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.

Read the whole article and see the vulnerability stats over at ZDNet

[TheBearLT]

I told you so.. (To Mac Users)

If Hackers shall seriously start digging in Linux/Unix code.. you will found out, that overall Those OSes has as many Security Holes as a Swiss Cheese

Edited by TheBearLT, 19 December 2007 - 09:40 AM.