Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash
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Re: Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash
#2Why is Mac OSX one item yet Windows is split up at every single version? Even Air seems weirdly split up.
Re: Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash
#3This is completely meaningless since it doesn't take into account patches. I.e. It doesn't characterize the number of exploitable vulnerabilities on devices and still open to attack - just the number that were reported during the year.
The fact that there is still no jailbreak for the current version of iOS, whilst there are active million-node android botnets paints a different picture.
Re: Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash
#4Why is Mac OSX one item yet Windows is split up at every single version? Even Air seems weirdly split up.
Because they wanted OSX on #1? ;-)
Re: Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash
#5Why is Mac OSX one item yet Windows is split up at every single version? Even Air seems weirdly split up.
Because the data are competely unsuitable for producing meaningful statistics:
http://www.cvedetails.com/how-does-it-work.php
This is simply meaningless clickbait.
Re: Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash
#6Here's my stock response to these vulnerability counting reports: