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But the bottom of that page has a cumulative count by vendor which shows Apple having the second most security issues, only topped by Microsoft. Considering the
by bildung 7y ago
But the bottom of that page has a cumulative count by vendor which shows Apple having the second most security issues, only topped by Microsoft. Considering the fact that Microsoft has much bigger market share and therefore security research attention, that's quite an achievement.
- ricardobeat 7y agoYou mean MS historically has 100% more security issues. Also IE alone competes with entire OSes in that top 10. That proves the other comment right, but surely you can spin it other ways. Anyone who has switched from old windows to Mac doesn’t need numbers to tell how wild it was.
- bildung 7y ago> You mean MS historically has 100% more security issues. For an OS used 1000% as often[0], yes. I have no skin in this game, BTW, as I use neither. But given the number of security issues Apple has, I really bothers me that they still sell those products as somehow more secure. [0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Desktop_and_laptop_computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
- kalleboo 7y agoI'm not going to comment on Apple's software security standards (and Microsoft deserves more kudos for their focus on security after the bad old days of XP), I'm just pointing out that summing up CVEs is not a valid way to compare. > Considering the fact that Microsoft has much bigger market share and therefore security research attention The OS X bug numbers also include a bunch of bugs for open source projects that are bundled with OS X (Perl, Ruby, Python, SQLite, PHP etc) which increases the security research attention.