Apple the new world leader in software insecurity

Apple has displaced Oracle as the company with the most security vulnerabilities in its software, according to security company Secunia. Over the first half of 2010, Apple had more reported flaws than any other vendor. Microsoft retains its third-place spot. Secunia has tracked security vulnerabilities and issues advisories since 2002, producing periodic reports on the state of software. Together, the top ten vendors account for some 38% of all flaws reported.

Though this does not necessarily mean that Apple's software is the most insecure in practice—the report takes no consideration of the severity of the flaws—it points at a growing trend in the world of security flaws: the role of third-party software. Many of Apple's flaws are not in its operating system, Mac OS X, but rather in software like Safari, QuickTime, and iTunes. Vendors like Adobe (with Flash and Adobe Reader) and Oracle (with Java) are similarly responsible for many of the flaws being reported.

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Apple the new world leader in software insecurity

Everyone (except for Mac fanatics) already knows this.

I have a friend on Facebook that is so proud of her iMac. Recently she asked how she can burn a DVD on it though. So user friendly, eh? I told her that if she had Windows 7 she can just drag and drop a file to the DVD, simple and easy. She said that she loved her Mac though. I suggested putting Windows 7 on it. Her response was that she didn't want to get a virus because the guy at Best Buy told her that Macs are safer.

Why does anyone think that Best Buy employees give sound advice? They are there to sell product, nothing more.