[Chaython]

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Microsoft's Windows 8 platform has been tagged by security research firm Secunia as having the most vulnerabilities of any Windows platform on the market. As you can see in the chart above, it's quite clear that, according to their research, that Windows 8 had more vulnerabilities than previous versions of Windows that are currently supported by Microsoft for 2013.

If you are wondering why Windows 8 tops the charts, even though Microsoft touts the platform as more secure than its predecessors, the answer is quite simple; Flash. Because Flash is now baked into the modern instance of IE, any Flash vulnerability can now be tied into Windows 8 as well.

 

[CSCoder4ever]

More reasons to hate Flash!

 

[XAslanX]

Known about this for a while now, yet another reason we don't use Win 8 on corporate machines

 

[Stealth Pyros]

Soooo... How about if you're an actual human with a working brain and removed IE from W8?

 

[Paladin Goo]

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Originally Posted by Stealth Pyros

Soooo... How about if you're an actual human with a working brain and removed IE from W8?

You can do that?

 

[AnnoyinDemon]

Microsoft is dying.

 

[Tsumi]

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Originally Posted by Raven Dizzle

You can do that?

Right click the start button (or winkey + x).
Program and Features
Turn Windows Features on or off
Uncheck the box for Internet Explorer 11.
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Originally Posted by AnnoyinDemon

Microsoft is dying.

They're not dying. This is just exposing the risks of having flash integrated into IE. Most people using IE would have flash installed anyways, so Windows 7 systems would be just as vulnerable.

 

[*ka24e*]

So XP has less vulnerability's than Vista, 7 and 8? And yes, flash needs to die.

 

[DrClaw]

and more reason to believe iphones/androids and all that are also sensitive to hacking, thats why i never use my phones wireless in coffee shops or do phone banking or store personal serious info on my phone.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/08/08/tools-to-hack-android-phones-are-getting-easier-to-use/

i always thought they were with their measy peasy flash menus, everything with some kind of flash, blackberry has a better built os btw

 

[Tsumi]

Rereading that again:

It says
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Because Flash is now baked into the modern instance of IE, any Flash vulnerability can now be tied into Windows 8 as well.

So are they talking about the Metro version? If so, unless they managed to discover vulnerabilities in the Metro environment itself (it basically runs Metro apps in a sandbox), vulnerabilities in Metro IE doesn't mean anything. Except of course for any private information you might have on it.

 

[Xeio]

This is interesting, but don't like 90%+ of PC users have flash installed already anyway?

So if those extra vulnerabilities are from flash, pretty much all versions of Windows are affected anyway (and, notably, older versions of IE don't sandbox flash at all). I'd like to see a breakdown of the flash specific numbers if they're going to blame flash for a majority...

 

[Naviblue]

Yeah but what about people at home who gets their brand new PCs, you know the first thing they do is bring up either Internet Explorer or Chrome or Firefox and then go to youtube.com and then have to install Flash. Come on, this is just funny....

 

[kx11]

when will flash die ?

 

[Majin SSJ Eric]

All aboard the Windows 8 hate train!

 

[06yfz450ridr]

its pre installed norton I tell you, that 30 day subscription that no one every renews does wonders haha.

 

[coachmark2]

I would like to see that chart assuming other versions of Windows had bundled Flash....

 

[Chaython]

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Originally Posted by coachmark2

I would like to see that chart assuming other versions of Windows had bundled Flash....

???
Other windows versions you could update flash, this version you have to receive it generally on update tuesday

 

[wedge]

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Originally Posted by Chaython

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Something is wrong with the math in that chart. If built-in flash is responsible for 55 vulnerabilities in the OS. Then shouldn't the Third-Party Vulnerabilities be lower by 55? Making the total roughly the same for each version. It seems to me that they are counting the same vulnerabilities twice for Win8.

 

[coachmark2]

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Originally Posted by Chaython

???
Other windows versions you could update flash, this version you have to receive it generally on update tuesday

The article cites the reason for their being unsecure as Flash. I would like to see stats controlling for the presence of Flash and removing it from the equation. That is, I'd like to see Windows 8 vs all others without Flash exploits counted.

 

[Domino]

Most used software gets attack the most. If Linux held 99% of the market, it would be even worse than MS+flash is right now.