The most vulnerable operating systems in 2014 were ...

[mister]

According to a new report from GFI, an average of 19 vulnerabilities per day were reported in 2014, according to the data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). 7,038 new security vulnerabilities were also added to the NVD database in 2014. So which operating systems were the most vulnerable in 2014? Apple's Mac OS X and iOS, not Windows.

"It is interesting that although Microsoft operating systems still have a considerable number of vulnerabilities, they are no longer in the top 3. Apple with OS X and iOS is at the top, followed by Linux kernel," the report states.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/forget-windows-most-vulnerable-operating-systems-2014-was-mac-os-x-and-ios

 

[mister]

I hope nobody does the maths on the different windows versions

 

[LCBXX]

What is this? The rise in O/S/Software/etc popularity equates to a rise in the number of reported vulnerabilities? Well I never.

 

[mister]

What is this? The rise in O/S/Software/etc popularity equates to a rise in the number of reported vulnerabilities? Well I never.

Windows RT vuln vs popularity

 

[JStrike]

I suspect it is grouped by OS Version. i.e
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
OSX 10.7
OSX 10.8
iOS 7.1
etc

Windows tends to take very long for a version to get significant adoption.
OSX and iOS take just a few weeks to reach 80% or so adoption.

Quite surprised by Linux kernel being there though