Threat Center Security News Apple Discloses More Vulnerabilities Than Any Other
Apple Discloses More Vulnerabilities Than Any Other Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Tuesday, 05 August 2008 19:00

Apple takes the place of Microsoft disclosing more vulnerabilities than any other vendor in IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® 2008 Mid Year Trend Report.

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Ranking Vendor Disclosures
1. Apple 3.2%
2. Joomla! 2.7%
3. Microsoft 2.5%
4. IBM 2.3%
5. Sun 1.9%%
6. Oracle 1.4%
7. Cisco 1.4%
8. Drupal 1.2%
9. WordPress 1.1%
10. Linux 1.0%

"Vendors with the Highest Percentage of Public Exploits Another way of assessing the most targeted vendors is to analyze the availability of public exploits for the vulnerabilities that are disclosed. The X-Force definition of “public exploit” follows the standard CVSS terminology."
 

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