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Apple reports higher security vulnerabilities than Microsoft, Google

By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 5 June 2012 15:11 IST

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The unthinkable has happened - Apple reported higher security vulnerabilities than Microsoft, Google and Oracle in Q1 2012.

Apple fans won't like this one bit. As per security major Trend Micro's quarterly roundup report, Apple has claimed the unwanted crown of the technology major with most reported security vulnerabilities in Q1 2012.

Apple topped the list with 91 reported security vulnerabilities in the quarter, while Oracle came in second with 78 and Google third with 73. Microsoft, often the object of ridicule for vulnerabilities in Windows and other products, will breathe a sigh of relief at coming in fourth with 43 reported vulnerabilities. IBM (42), Cisco (36), Mozilla (30), MySQL (28), Adobe (27) and Apache (24) round up the list of shame.

The report comes on the back of a pretty grim April for Apple on the security front, with over half a million Macs infected by the Flashback Trojan. To its credit, Apple later released an update that removed the Trojan and fixed the Java vulnerability that the Trojan exploited. Other variants of the Trojan, using payload other than Java code, have since been spotted in the wild.

Android too got a special mention in the security report - for the wrong reasons. Trend Micro spotted over 5000 new malicious Android apps during Q1 2012 alone.

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