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Title: Lies, damned lies and these lies: Security numbers don’t tell the story Post by: HCK on January 06, 2016, 09:00:13 pm Lies, damned lies and these lies: Security numbers don’t tell the story
<article> <section class="page"> <p>If there’s a metric Apple’s failing at you can be sure it’ll get reported, even if it’s a meaningless metric.</p><p>Writing for Tiger Beat in the Valley, Emil Protalinski runs the numbers. Or, well, looks at some numbers.</p><p>“Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015: Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash.” (Tip o’ the antlers to @JonyIveParody (http://twitter.com/jonyiveparody) and @_HairForceOne (https://twitter.com/_HairForceOne/status/683548340580044800).)</p><p>Every so often someone rolls out this trope about CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) counts as if it’s supposed to be meaningful for anyone other than ski-mask-wearing-hacker-stereotype guy in the Starbucks who ironically uses his real name for the coffee order because using a fake name is just what the NSA would expect.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3019003/security/lies-damned-lies-and-these-lies-security-numbers-don-t-tell-the-story.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Lies, damned lies and these lies: Security numbers don’t tell the story (http://www.macworld.com/article/3019003/security/lies-damned-lies-and-these-lies-security-numbers-don-t-tell-the-story.html#tk.rss_all) |