[Up Yours Marxists]

Microsoft has been officially dethroned as the most vulnerable operating system in 2014. And the most vulnerable mobile operating system.

Congratulations, Apple!

[editor-surveyor]

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Anyone that thinks this is good news is a fool.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Yay! Windows 10 > OS X

Chuckle.

[big'ol_freeper]

LOL...riigghhhttt

[rockrr]

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[Swordmaker]

OS X listed as having the most "vulnerabilities" in 2015. However, that is because it ships with and updates many components of UNIX^tm programing languages as well as OS X included in every update. Also, vulnerabilities do not translate as "exploits," and the vast majority of the reported vulnerabilities were self-reported by Apple as they patched them. -- PING!

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[Da Coyote]

The wife and I both despise El Capitan.

Much more of this cr*p and we will go back to Unix.

Nope, no Microsoft. Not now. Not evah!

[tacticalogic]

One reason Windows typically has more vulnerabilities attributed to it than Linix and derivatives is that there is more functionality built in via dotnet.

For example, the infamous Poodle vulnerability is attributed to a third party library (Open SSL) used by many Linux systems, but not to Linux itself.

Windows servers don't exhibit the behavior because they use code from the dotnet crypto assemblies. If the same vulnerability had been found there, it would have been attributed to Windows.

[mass55th]

Only in their wet dreams.

[Swordmaker]

Of the 384 vulnerabilities, only 2 resulted in exploits, and those were on older versions of OS X, AFTER the vulnerabilities were published and AFTER Apple had pushed out the patches, since Apple was the one who revealed the vulnerabilities. The exploiters were opportunists who took advantage of people who did not bother to install updates.

Apple Exploited Vulnerabilities by year, 2015 had 2

These two:

Note they are both earlier versions of OS X.10 Yosemite, not OS X.11 El Capitan

The exploit is quire complicated on the first, requiring construction of a complete dictionary to replace a supplied dictionary and then somehow getting it installed on the target computer. Not an easy task. This exploit turns out to be a proof of concept sent to a security company. It was never in the lab.

The second "exploit" was another proof of concept, never released into the wild.

Both were never in the wild.

[dayglored]

> Microsoft has been officially dethroned as the most vulnerable operating system in 2014. And the most vulnerable mobile operating system. Congratulations, Apple!

From the article:

> Adobe, everyone's expected leader, sits safely at 316, much behind OS X's tally. So much for Apple's security reputation.

"Safely"??? Adobe Flash??? Are you out of your mind? Or a shill? Or both? Based on your posting record, I might be inclined to think "both".

Speaking for a moment as the keeper of the Free Republic Windows/Microsoft Ping List, I'd like to congratulate YOU, Up Yours, for posting one of the most misleading and overall foolish tech threads in quite a long time.

The folks who run the CVE, and the folks over at CVEdetails.com, know that different reported vulnerabilities have wildly different importance and impact. For example, using the selector at CVEdetails, there are:

• Vulnerabilities with exploits
• Code execution
• Overflows
• Cross Site Request Forgery
• File inclusion
• Gain privilege
• Sql injection
• Cross site scripting
• Directory traversal
• Memory corruption
• Http response splitting
• Bypass something
• Gain information
• Denial of service

and others. So I have to ask you (rhetorically -- don't feel obliged to answer):

Do you not comprehend the difference between a software bug and an operational vulnerability?

Do you not comprehend the difference between a vulnerability and an exploit?

I think not.

Please understand, I'm not excusing nor apologizing for ANY of the entries on HackRead's article's list. All those entries belong there. But they are simply TOTALs without regard to importance or impact.

The article's inane gloating, and your subsequent gloating-by-proxy, are so blatantly ignorant as to be laughable.

So in your honor, as the holder of the "Most Technically Ignorant and Overall Foolish Tech Thread of 2016" Award, I will in a moment ping the Windows List so that they can come and commiserate over the fall of Windows as Vulnerability Leader.

And the year is brand-new! I'm confident that before the year is over, in your endless striving, you will have posted another such thread that exceeds even this one in technical ignorance and foolishness. Onward!

And a Happy New Year to you!

[dayglored]

OMG! Windows is no longer the CVE Vulnerability Leader (SOB!!) ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to Up Yours Marxists for alerting us to this devastating state of affairs!!

[Secret Agent Man]

Given what microsquish has ben pulling with windows 10, i don’t believe it.

This “story” breaks and at the same time an attack piece on homo tim cook? Someone’s given marching orders to go after apple.