While Microsoft continues to work hard to make Windows 8 and 8.1 safer, a new Secunia research released today (PDF) shows that Windows vulnerabilities have doubled since last year and that the latest software version of Microsoft is the most vulnerable of all versions that are still supported at this time.
The security company discovered more than 350 vulnerabilities in Windows XP, 7, και 8 το 2013, και τα στατιστικά της data confirm that despite all the updates released by Microsoft, the final number doubled compared to 2012 figures.
Overall, Windows 7 had total 102 vulnerabilities, from 50 that had 2012, while Windows XP, which is said to stop supporting after a month, had only 99 security blanks, 49 over the previous year.
Windows 8 now, on the other hand, was the most vulnerable version of Windows still supported by Microsoft, since Secunia had a total of 156 malfunctions found in this particular release.
Of course, she is not responsible for that platform, Secunia reports, but the use of Adobe Flash Player by Internet Explorer which was the main reason why so many vulnerabilities have been reported in Windows 8.
Internet Explorer 10, the default program tours of Windows 8, comes with a built-in Flash Player, which means Microsoft will have to work with Adobe to patch its own browser.
A comprehensive chart that includes operating system vulnerabilities, Microsoft programs, and vulnerabilities in third-party applications shows that all versions of Windows still supported by the company had more than 1.200 security gaps last year, with the Windows 8 to have the first, with 1.261 vulnerabilities.
Microsoft has, of course, managed to deal with all these security gaps quite dignified and claims that Windows 8 is still the safest version of its operating systems to date.
