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Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-speed-patcher-gooo dept.

Amy Bennett writes "And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple. They measured how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a vulnerability became publicly known, which they call the 0-day patch rate. What they found: 'Apple was below 20 [unpatched vulnerabilities at disclosure] consistently before 2005,' said Stefan Frei, one of the researchers involved in the study. 'Since then, they are very often above. So if you have Apple and compare it to Microsoft, the number of unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple.'"

3 of 252 comments (clear)

  1. Reading comprehension by Jax+Omen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read that as "Fastest Pitcher"... I was very confused.

  2. And the winner is... by sm62704 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNU!

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    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  3. Egg McMuffin Inventor Dead at 89 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TRULY AN AMERICAN ICON.