“…SecurityFocus.com is one of the U.S.’ leading security
companies. It also administers the Bugtraq mailing list, perhaps
the most well read security mailing list in existence. On that
list, security bug problems are found, examined and, if proven to
be real, are then listed on SecurityFocus’ vulnerability
database.”
“…Microsoft operating systems, especially NT, has more
reported security bugs over the last two years than any other
operating system. You can see it for yourself in SecurityFocus’
just released statistics on how many vulnerabilities associated
with each of operating system and platform is in their database for
these last three years.”
“…For example, in 1999 and 2000, Windows NT lead the way with
the most bugs of any one operating system. But, before the
Linux fans start popping open their champagne bottles, they’ll be
horrified to know that the different distributions aggravate
problems almost matched NT and were much higher than other
operating systems covered such as the BSDs, Solaris and Windows
95/98. The safest operating system was MacOS with only a
handful of trouble reports over the last four years.”