[Ubuntu-be] Microsoft Security Report...

[Jan Bongaerts]

Microsoft Intelligence.

Same league as Military Intelligence, Civil Servant,...



On 14 May 2011 19:22, Jurgen Gaeremyn <jurgen.gaeremyn at pandora.be> wrote:

> 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)
>
> p. 20 Great hop in "JAVA" (due to popularity) but have a look at the
> brown "Operating System" line!
>
> 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!
>
> p. 23-24 talks about types of exploits... I just turn around and take
> another nap :)
>
> 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 :)
>
> p. 35 Infection rates per "Operating system" (yet, only the MS family...
> I guess they know we don't get sick) ;)
>
> 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!
>
> 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!!
>
> Enjoy the lecture!
> (I hope they notice an above average number of Linux computers
> downloading this file in their webserver statistics!)
>
> Grtz,
> Jurgen
>
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