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Windows 10 isn’t the most vulnerable operating system – it’s actually Linux
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<blockquote data-quote="HarborFront" data-source="post: 897820" data-attributes="member: 55987"><p>Surprising reports paints Linux and Android as less secure than Windows</p><p></p><p></p><p>Which operating system has suffered the most vulnerabilities since around the turn of the millennium? That would be <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/best-linux-distro-beginners" target="_blank">Linux</a>, not Microsoft’s Windows, at least according to a freshly released report.</p><p></p><p>An analysis of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database, compiled by <a href="https://thebestvpn.com/vulnerability-alerts/" target="_blank">Thebestvpn.com</a>, tracked ‘technical vulnerabilities’ in popular pieces of software between 1999 and 2019.</p><p></p><p>And <a href="https://www.techradar.com/reviews/debian-101-buster" target="_blank">Debian</a>, a flavor of Linux, was top of the table with 3,067 vulnerabilities over the last two decades. Reasonably close behind was Android on 2,563 vulnerabilities, with the Linux kernel in third place having racked up a count of 2,357. Apple’s macOS was only slightly behind that with 2,212, with Ubuntu in fifth place on 2,007.</p><p></p><p>All of the top five places were taken by operating systems, although Firefox and Chrome filled the next two positions with 1,873 and 1,858 vulnerabilities respectively.</p><p></p><p>As for Microsoft’s operating systems, Windows 7 bore 1,283 vulnerabilities, and <a href="https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-10-1267364/review" target="_blank">Windows 10</a> carried 1,111. If you add those together, you get a total of 2,394 for the past decade, roughly – given that Windows 7 came out in 2009, and handed the baton to Windows 10 in 2015.</p><p></p><p>Read more here</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-isnt-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-its-actually-linux[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]KAXRlzr1u8g[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]_AQ2B4LYgGg[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarborFront, post: 897820, member: 55987"] Surprising reports paints Linux and Android as less secure than Windows Which operating system has suffered the most vulnerabilities since around the turn of the millennium? That would be [URL='https://www.techradar.com/news/best-linux-distro-beginners']Linux[/URL], not Microsoft’s Windows, at least according to a freshly released report. An analysis of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database, compiled by [URL='https://thebestvpn.com/vulnerability-alerts/']Thebestvpn.com[/URL], tracked ‘technical vulnerabilities’ in popular pieces of software between 1999 and 2019. And [URL='https://www.techradar.com/reviews/debian-101-buster']Debian[/URL], a flavor of Linux, was top of the table with 3,067 vulnerabilities over the last two decades. Reasonably close behind was Android on 2,563 vulnerabilities, with the Linux kernel in third place having racked up a count of 2,357. Apple’s macOS was only slightly behind that with 2,212, with Ubuntu in fifth place on 2,007. All of the top five places were taken by operating systems, although Firefox and Chrome filled the next two positions with 1,873 and 1,858 vulnerabilities respectively. As for Microsoft’s operating systems, Windows 7 bore 1,283 vulnerabilities, and [URL='https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/windows-10-1267364/review']Windows 10[/URL] carried 1,111. If you add those together, you get a total of 2,394 for the past decade, roughly – given that Windows 7 came out in 2009, and handed the baton to Windows 10 in 2015. Read more here [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-isnt-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-its-actually-linux[/URL] [MEDIA=youtube]KAXRlzr1u8g[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]_AQ2B4LYgGg[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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