An IBM X-Force security report for 2007 shows some interesting statistics about security vulnerabilities, spam, phishing and other security threats. Perhaps the most surprising number to come from this report is Apple’s second position in the top five vendors reporting security vulnerabilities: coming just after Microsoft (with 238 vulnerabilities), Apple’s 207 vulnerabilities beats out Oracle, IBM and Cisco. Apple issued nine security updates in 2007, as well as many updates to individual software components (notably QuickTime), in an effort to patch all these holes. But the IBM report states that 20% of the vulnerabilities of the top-five vendors remain unpatched.
You can download the complete IBM X-Force report here (3.1 MB PDF).
