Operating System Vulnerabilities, Exploits and Insecurity

Hands up who believes that OS X and iOS are the most vulnerable operating systems in use today? Well, I find it a bit hard to believe, too, even though I’ve had a lot of hate-mail over the years for pointing out that Apple’s operating systems are not invulnerable. Yet this is the tenor of GFI’s articleMost vulnerable operating systems and applications in 2014, based on data from the National Vulnerability Database, and it’s caused a certain (muted) uproar in security reporting circles. I suspect it’s generated a certain amount of hate-mail too, judging from the tone of some of the comments to the blog. Curiously, some of the comments are centred on ‘bad journalism’, which seems to miss the point that Cristian Florian is actually a product manager, not a journalist:

‘He currently oversees GFI LanGuard, a successful network security scanning and patch management solution.’

Operating System Vulnerabilities, Exploits and Insecurity