infosec4all.com » Consumer security http://infosec4all.com Information Security Blog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:15:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Microsoft vs. Apple (again) http://infosec4all.com/2008/06/03/microsoft-vs-apple-again/ http://infosec4all.com/2008/06/03/microsoft-vs-apple-again/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:59:12 +0000 Branko S. Bokan http://infosec4all.com/?p=61 One of my favorite topics. Does not necessarily mean that Microsoft is more secure than Apple, but provides a counter argument to all those security hobbyists who are ready to take sides. Comparing ‘security’ of Microsoft applications against ‘security’ of Apple is just like comparing apples and oranges.

A research by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology compared zero-day patch rate of the two. The bottom line - Apple is behind Microsoft when it comes to patching software.

The findings were presented at BlackHat Europe 2008 and are available in PDF, PPT, and HTML.

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