strollin wrote:
Which OS is most secure?
No, you are almost certainly wrong if you tried to guess. ...
This line from the article speaks volumes: "Also remember that your own behavior affects security more than your choice of device, and that you never are 100% safe no matter what you do."
The study that the article links to doesn't even list Android which seems very odd. While iOS has more vulnerabilities disclosed at least the fixes reach the customers in a reasonable timeframe. Android fixes very often don't get to the consumer for a year or more if at all. Even though the article is skewed toward making Apple seem insecure, I think iOS is considerably more secure (esp. iOS 8) than Android.
A more valuable study would be mean time to fix for each vulnerability. A fixed vulnerability that gets patched within a few weeks is far more relatively secure than one that goes unpatched for months or years.
This study isn't that useful to show which OS is "safest" because it's not as simple as the one with the least security holes. It also is just a listing of CVEs recorded in 2014 so lumping everything under Apple iOS could show items exclusive to iOS 7 or iOS 8 which means nothing if you're not on that version. Or Windows 7 only versus Windows 8 - I wouldn't gauge my security on the number of vulnerabilities in an OS flavor that I'm not currently running.
