Monday, November 26, 2012

What? Apple leads in vulnerabilities? AND What the heck is Moodle?

I was as surprised as everyone else when Trend Micro released their Malicious Top Ten for Q3 2012 and found Apple at the top of the list of vendors with the most vulnerabilities.

RankVendorNumber of Reported
Vulnerabilities

3Q 2012
VendorNumber of Reported
Vulnerabilities

2Q 2012
1Apple163Oracle         97
2Moodle93Linux         76
3Google72Google         74
4Oracle71Microsoft         55
5Mozilla57Mozilla         48
6Cisco55Cisco         45
7IBM53IBM         37
8Ffmpeg53Adobe         27
9Adobe42Apple         26
10Microsoft35HP         24


Maybe this will shut up some of those Apple snobs that sneer at PC products and brag about how secure Apple products are?  Nah, probably not!

In case you're wondering what the heck Moodle is and why it's number 2 on the list, you're not alone.  I had to look it up too.  It's an open source authoring language for teachers who want to write their own teaching applications.  Good luck with that one Rocky!  I even found a YouTube intro for it.  Based upon the quality of the presentation, I won't be trying it out any time soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXBdNdPUwKA

Open Source:  For those too cheap to buy programs from companies that have quality control departments.

"QC?  QC?  We don't got no stinking QC!"

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