IBM Reports Apple #1 in Reported Security Vulnerabilities
Infoworld is reporting that a new IBM security study is showing Apple as the #1 provider of security vulnerabilities. Final results were close, according to the IBM X-Force 2008 mid-year report , with Apple achieving vulnerability disclosure score of 3.2 percent, followed by Joomla (open source) with 2.7 percent and Microsoft at 2.5 percent. Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers had a marked drop in critical vulnerabilities from 2007. Both browsers had six memory corruption vulnerabilities, down from 20 and eight respectively in 2007, however Firefox fell short of it's rival with one security zone bypass, and a single miscellaneous vulnerability. Firefox had 11 security zone bypass and four buffer overflow flaws in 2007.
