blaze pascal writes "The number of viruses exploiting flaws in Microsoft apps is going down, according to a report by Danish security company Secunia. The report says:
"Because users seem to be getting more security savvy when it comes to patching Microsoft applications, cybercriminals are adjusting by exploiting vulnerabilities in other popular software."
Seems Secunia is talking about third party apps on Microsoft systems, however, a story on ZDNet.co.uk picks up Secunia stats saying that Red Hat operating systems had more reported vulnerabilities than Windows in 2007. From the story:
"Secunia compared last year's vulnerability reports for five operating systems: Microsoft Windows (98 and onwards); Mac OS X; HP-UX 10.x and 11.x; Solaris 8, 9, and 10; and Red Hat (excluding Fedora).
The company found that Red Hat had the most reported vulnerabilities out of those operating systems, with 633 flaws. Solaris had a total of 252 vulnerabilities, while Apple Mac OS X came third with 235. Windows came fourth with 123, while HP-UX had 75 reported flaws."
Windows had fewer flaws than Red Hat, Solaris, and Mac??? The question for the Slashdot community is, as open source becomes more popular, will there be more vulnerabilities found in code than open source developers can handle?" Link to Original Source
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