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| Windows Vista IS the Most Secure OS ! |
| Aug 19th, 2007. The First 6 Months : CSO. |
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| Latest ScoreCard : OS Vulnerability ScoreBoard |
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| Vista : 'More secure than AppleOSX and Linux' |
| Microsoft has said in a new study that Windows Vista has needed fewer security patches than any other recently released desktop operating system. "Windows Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor and a significantly better profile to comparable modern competitive operating systems". The Windows Vista 6-month Vulnerability Report (PDF) compared the number of flaws during the 90 days after the application's launch for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10) and Apple Mac OS X. |
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| Vista beat the other operating systems on nearly all fronts, according to the report, logging the fewest fixed vulnerabilities and the fewest repairs with a severity rating of 'high'. Details. |
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| MacOSX Leopard hacked beyond recognition and not even out yet ! |
| Aug 15th, 2007. In terms of security Vista is just the safest Windows version available and nothing more. The same argument is not valid for Apple... |
| Just take the example of Safari 3 Beta browser for Windows. "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one," stated a message posted on the Apple official website. The reality? Security researchers turn up no less than 18 security vulnerabilities for Safari 3 in the browser's first day... |
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| Miller's conclusion is worrisome for future Leopard users: "Why Hacking Macs is Easy." According to Miller Macs are just as easy to hack as they are to use. "To help users, there are lots of 50+ suid root programs" revealed the security researcher. |
| "Apple doesn't randomize anything: the location of the stack, the location of the heap, the location of the binary image, the location of dynamic libraries and (to top it all off) heap is executable." By contrast Windows Vista introduces a security mitigation called Address Space Load Randomization (ASLR). Source : Softpedia. |
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