Windows 7 far ahead of Apple regarding security

[Skybird]

"C't" is a German PC magazine, one of the leading publications here, and quite competent, it is no yellow press for the PC market.

http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwel...ls-Mac-OS.html

In their latest edition they compared the security standards of Win7 and Apple's Mac, and came to alarming conclusions, condemning Apple for trailing far behind and being slow and lazy in closing known security issues. They quote several major holes which still remain unadressed, they conclude that the open source philosophy, which also seems to fail in tackling these problems via open applications, is used by Apple to save the needed huge investments to close these security problems, and they point out that the low number of known attacks on Mac systems is only because hackers say Mac platforms simply are uninteresting for them as a target, due to the small market share of 8% only. C't predicts that if Mac would raise in market shares so that it becomes an interesting target for hackers and spy ware, the problems suddenly emerging would shatter Apple's reputation and would do damage to it from which to recover the company would find difficult.

They based their article on internal tests as well as cooperation with insiders of the hacker scene.

[the_tyrant]

Not that many people use mac products, therefore we find less viruses and exploits for apple products
there are quite a few documented vulnerabilities out there for mac, but since there are no public vulnerabilities for them, the number of attacks against that module is tiny.
Therefore, people have a false impression that "apple pays more attention to security"

[NeonSamurai]

Ya, already knew that. Mac can be lax about its security as no body gives a damn about exploiting all the holes. They ever become prominent in the market and look the heck out.