Windows, OS X, and iOS Top 2015's List of Software With the Most Vulnerabilities (venturebeat.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 1, 2016 @02:15AM from the also-top-list-of-most-investigated-for-vulnerabilities dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in 2015? According to a site called CVE Details, which organizes data provided by the National Vulnerability Database, Apple's Mac OS X was near the top, with 384 vulnerabilities. iOS followed closely, with 375 vulnerabilities. The list splits out Windows into its separate versions, so it's hard to get an accurate count — simply adding them all together yields a total of over 1,000, but there are likely many duplicates. Other top spots went to Adobe's Flash Player, with 314 vulnerabilities; Adobe's AIR SDK, with 246 vulnerabilities; and Adobe AIR itself, also with 246 vulnerabilities. The four major web browsers also ranked quite highly.

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But... but... wasn't OS-X supposed to be secure? by QuietLagoon · 2016-01-01 03:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I had always read that Apple's OS-X operating system was secure and that its users didn't have to worry about viruses and security vulnerabilities.
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What happened? Did Apple mess up its development process?