Marc's not saying anything that 80+% of people working in software security haven't been saying for years. Nothing against Marc, just, this isn't controversial. Of course they are.
For what it's worth, the cover of "Writing Secure Code 2" has a quote from Bill Gates "Required reading at Microsoft." On my very first day at MS I was handed a copy and told to read it (and I did). Our code also went under strict security reviews and just about any refactoring, bug fix, anything that potentially affected security had to be reviewed too.
<i>The only reason Apple gets little increase in security is because they're running on top of a Unix-based operating system and they can take advantage of some of the things that have been done for them.</i><p>Am I misreading this, or is he saying these advantages Apple has don't count because they're playing on easy mode with their OS design?
Yes, but Apple has a smaller install base so they are targeted less often. In practice, I think you are more secure on OSX at the moment. If their install base grows, I expect that will change.
Oh, RLY? Tell this to all those botnets.. Ah, it is pcworld..<p><a href="http://www.milw0rm.com/platforms/windows" rel="nofollow">http://www.milw0rm.com/platforms/windows</a>
"Marc Maiffret...now works trying to find security flaws in Microsoft's software...". I wonder who pays him? No surprises as to why he finds Microsoft more secure than Apple and Adobe.