Jurgen Gaeremyn schreef op za 14-05-2011 om 19:22 [+0200]: > Just bumped into this link: the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report > > http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx > (at the bottom you can download a PDF (a.o.) in English or French) > > Some figures I like to highlight: > > p. 18 (figure 5): Microsoft-related vulnerability disclosures increased > towards the end. (note: Non-microsoft means: other software running > under Windows)
More disclosure is a good thing! [...] > p.21 Exploits that are "Internet Explorer Specific" are quite a lot: > they say: Exploits that target IE accounted for between 19 and 36% of > HTML-related exploits each quarter! Almost all of those exploits target one single vulnerability in *unpatched* versions of IE 6/7/8. Read: lots of Windows users don't update their system... [...] p. 25-26 shows that security breaches can be divided into "malicious incidents" (malware, cracking, fraud, ...) and "negligence" (lost or stolen equipment, accidental disclosure, ...). The number of incidents due to "negligence" are twice as high as those caused by "malice". This might be a good reason to promote things like encrypted disks or directories. > p. 30 World map showing infection rates globally. Most of Europe and US > has a rate of 10-25% ... under Ubuntu we have a rate of 1-2% I think :) Not *percent* but *promille*. That equals 1.0-2.5 percent. > p. 35 Infection rates per "Operating system" (yet, only the MS family... > I guess they know we don't get sick) ;) This indicates that newer versions of Windows get safer every time; I'm sure Microsoft is happy about that. It also shows 64-bit x86 OS versions are safer than 32-bit x86 OS versions. This is also true for Ubuntu. > p. 36 Figure 18: Infection rates per release of Win... obviously, Win XP > has the most infections, and Win7 has the lowest (would be a pity it it > were the other way around). But Win 7 is climbing! Statistically speaking it's as likely that what you see is "statistical error" than that it is "climbing". > This report doesn't stop! And it's a gift from MS to us all!! So much > great graphs that we could include in our presentations on why to switch > to Ubuntu!! Please, let's not spread FUD... This report has some very useful info, but it doesn't say/prove that Ubuntu is safer or better. -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
