It looks like the Apple security problems that have been buried in the news this year are adding up. According to IBM's annual security report, they have more disclosed vulnerabilities than any other vendor.
While Microsoft has been making their security practices progressively more transparent, Apple is notoriously close-lipped; one can only speculate about the actual numbers.
From InfoWorld:
Apple has taken the place of Microsoft for disclosing more vulnerabilities than any other vendor, according to an IBM security report.
The company rose from second place in 2007 to take the top spot away from Microsoft, which had fallen into third place behind open source content management system Joomla.
Final results were close, according to the IBM X-Force 2008 mid-year report , with Apple achieving vulnerability disclosure score of 3.2 percent, followed by Joomla with 2.7 percent and Microsoft at 2.5 percent. [From Apple gets bruised in vulnerability report | InfoWorld | News | 2008-08-06 | By Darren Pauli, Computerworld Australia]
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