How many compromised PCs are under the control of “botnet herders?” Is there any evidence of macs being hacked into and compromised? If so, present it.

How would one even go about checking for such a thing? Is there any evidence that macs aren’t being hacked into and compromised? If so, present it.

See? There is no proof either way, so it’s a bit silly to demand such proof.

I think a more interesting study would be to see how many vulnerabilities there are compared to how many of those are actually being exploited. I mean, Firefox could have more vulnerabilities than IE (which, recently, I think it has), but it doesn’t mean you’re ever going to actually run into them in the wild.

Many of the exploits are patched before details on them are even released though, so a minimum number of people actually know they exist. I would guess not many of the exploits are actually taken advantage of in the wild for that very reason.

They don’t really boast a whole lot in terms of security though. They do the general “oh we’re secure” routine, but don’t actually throw a lot of focus on that.

I mentioned in the article that I would like to see those stats, but Secunia doesn’t provide dates as to when they are actually patched.