Apples is supposed to have the most secure operating system – by far. That’s what we hear, anyway.

Ars Technica has an interesting article which is sourced by the security company Secunia that lays it all out. Maybe Apple isn’t so impervious after all.

To be fair, the article does say this:

Though this does not necessarily mean that Apple’s software is the most insecure in practice-the report takes no consideration of the severity of the flaws-it points at a growing trend in the world of security flaws: the role of third-party software. Many of Apple’s flaws are not in its operating system, Mac OS X, but rather in software like Safari, QuickTime, and iTunes. Vendors like Adobe (with Flash and Adobe Reader) and Oracle (with Java) are similarly responsible for many of the flaws being reported.

Not sure that really means much – security flaws create openings, no matter where they come from.

Anyhow – maybe another balloon losing some of its air.

And note how Microsoft is actually in third spot. And no, as far as I can tell Secunia isn’t really part of Microsoft’s PR and marketing department!