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OS X and Linux are more vulnerable than Windows

X-Force tracks vulnerabilities by platform and has produced metrics this year to show the operating systems with the most disclosed vulnerabilities. The following chart shows the operating systems with the most vulnerabilities documented in 2008. The top ten operating systems account for nearly 75% of all vulnerability disclosures affecting operating systems.

  OS X and Linux are more vulnerable than Windows

 

 News source: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/trendreports/xforce-2008-annual-report.pdf

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  • Posted by Facepalmer, 24 November, 2009 05:58:33
    What a meaningless table. It counts individual versions of Windows, and combines the figures for OSX Panther, Tiger, Leopard etc into single figures. Furthermore, it doesn't give any indication as to how serious these vulnerabilities are. That's like counting hairline cracks on a par with open gates.
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