More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007?

eldavojohn writes "A ZDNet blog reports stats from Secunia showing OSX averaged 20.25 vulnerabilities per month while XP & Vista combined averaged 3.67/month. Is this report card's implication accurate, or is this a symptom of one company turning a blind eye while the other concentrates on timely bugfixes? 'While Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren't present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it's something I am glad I don't use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.'"

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SLASHDOT SUX0RZ

[Anonymous Coward]

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more goatse for everybody

Re:Repeat something false often enough...

[justfred]

You mean like:

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Seems like it's working out pretty well for the current (US) government.

Obligatory

[Malevolent Tester]

But Microsoft are a CONVICTED MONOPOLY!111!11

Re:flamebait

[Anonymous Coward]

I pity you. You're suffering from some advanced form of dementia, caused by a sexually transmitted disease, most likely AIDS, that's all to prevalent in the Mac community. I guess Steve Jobs will have to sell more Red iPods until there's a cure.

Re:Counting shows nothing

[MrShaggy]

Are they counting vista as one big huge one??

Re:Repeat something false often enough...

[mr_mischief]

The US are a bunch of Facists.
The US was not previously at war with Iraq.
Iraq did not violate the terms of the ceasefire.
Saddam did not buy homes for families that sent teenage boys to blow themselves up on Israeli buses.

Yeah, repeat it often enough and people will believe it. I like how you quote 1984 for its geek cachet and then go on to repeat your particular hatred without justification.

Regardless of your feelings about the US in general, the US federal government in particular, or specifically the George W. Bush administration, if you're going to argue against a tactic (in this case empty repetition) don't turn around and use it in the same post. If you have a gripe, gripe. Don't just repeat your conclusion.

Re:Counting shows nothing

[man_of_mr_e]

Counting vulnerabilities is a stupid way to measure security.

So why is it, then, that for so many years those against Microsoft and Windows used every vulnerability as a chance to proclaim how much Windows sucks? Isn't that counting vulnerabilities as well?

News Flash: nothing has changed

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been pointing this fact out for years. And been getting modded down for the inconvenient truth, as well!

OS X
Windows XP
I don't know why Vista doesn't have it's own category (maybe not enough to report?). But anyhow, you can check OS (Microsoft), and search for Vista. Only four things show up...

And the worst one of all, of course, is Teh Lunix.

It's been a horrible, horrible year for MS haters. Moreso than usual. Those tail lights just keep getting farther, and farther, and farther away...

Security through obscurity will never beat actual security.

Re:News Flash: nothing has changed

[Anonymous Coward]

Way to fuck up a Pink Floyd quote, dumbass.

You FAIL.

Re:News Flash: nothing has changed

[blast3r]

How do I say this is a crock of shit without insulting you? You can gain a remote shell on any of the operating systems and they are all useful accordingly. There are automated attacks for all platforms. I would say Windows systems are more likely to have malware that updates itself. The malware has this function built in and doesn't care about the type of shell it is using. And how do you determine that you rarely get hackers connecting remotely to Windows boxes? I do forensics on these systems often and know that statement is not correct. "increased diversity of unix systems" bwahahaha. no comment. good day

Now I understand....

[TW Atwater]

...why the botnets are almost 100% Mac OS X machines and why they get all the viruses. Windows is just so much more secure.