Staff: Suresec security guru Neil Archibald tells ZDNet that the only thing protecting Apple’s OS X from from the same kinds of security bugs that plague Windows is the platform’s relative obscurity. According to Archibald, Apple’s increasing market share will make OS X more attractive to security researchers and attackers who will find it rife with “low-hanging bugs.”

“Some of the security vulnerabilities we’ve seen during research on OS X were fixed on most other operating systems 10 to 15 years ago,” he says.

He blames the lack of security on Apple’s failure to use common software auditing tools.

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