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Java "No Longer the Greatest Risk" to US Windows PC Users

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 28 2015, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the there-are-bigger-risks???? dept.

mendax writes:

Or so El Reg is telling us:

Apple's Windows apps have leapfrogged Oracle Java as the biggest security risk to PCs in the US, according to a study by vulnerability management outfit Secunia (now a Flexera Software company). [...]

Secunia's latest quarterly report, seen by The Reg, is a snapshot of software security on PCs used by folks in the US and 14 other countries. For the first time in four consecutive quarters, Java 7 isn't topping the list of most dangerous programs: Apple apps have taken the lead in the third quarter of 2015. [...]

Apple QuickTime 7.x and Apple iTunes 12.x top the list as the most exposed applications on US Windows PCs – a lot of people use them and not a lot of people are patching, in other words.

I thought the greatest risk to Windows PC users was the fact that Windows is installed on it. This seems to continue with Windows 10 according to this story also from El Reg.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:06PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:06PM (#255790) Homepage Journal

    Apple's iOS Enterprise tool can be used to install in-house apps on iGadgets without going through the app store. The last I checked, the Windows version used .Net. That's really silly - it's not a very big tool, you have to download tens of gigabytes of dependencies to get it to run, and it supports what at least at one time was Microsoft's ambition to rule the world.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @08:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @08:05AM (#255926)

    Windows comes with .net these days. are you still on millennium?

  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:21PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:21PM (#255981)

    Gigabytes huh?