Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash

[dubcanada]

Why is Mac OSX one item yet Windows is split up at every single version? Even Air seems weirdly split up.

[zepto]

Because the data are competely unsuitable for producing meaningful statistics:

http://www.cvedetails.com/how-does-it-work.php

This is simply meaningless clickbait.

[nik736]

Because they wanted OSX on #1? ;-)

[zepto]

This is completely meaningless since it doesn't take into account patches. I.e. It doesn't characterize the number of exploitable vulnerabilities on devices and still open to attack - just the number that were reported during the year.

The fact that there is still no jailbreak for the current version of iOS, whilst there are active million-node android botnets paints a different picture.

[justinschuh]

Here's my stock response to these vulnerability counting reports:

https://plus.google.com/+JustinSchuh/posts/CNEgtJWYTb5