Now, which of these two operating systems are the most vulnerable or least secure?
To find the answer, Sourcefire security research institute conducted a study titled "25 Years of Vulnerability" which was released in March.
His research is quite surprising. iPhone turned out to contain far more vulnerabilities than other mobile operating systems, including Android.
Yet all this is always referred to as the operating system is the least secure because it brings the open source Android.
Sourcefire states, the popularity of the iPhone and Apple's strict controls imposed on its application store would encourage cyber criminals to find loopholes in the iOS operating system.
A total of 210 security holes discovered in iPhones. That amount represents 81 percent of the overall number of vulnerabilities that exist in the mobile operating system, and is much larger than the total security holes in Android OS-based smartphone, Windows, and BlackBerry that figure only reached 19 per cent combined.
Yves Younan, a senior researcher Sourcefire, said that Apple mobile devices have increased year-over-year which is significant in terms of the number of vulnerabilities found, although iOS is always implementing new security features in every update.
With the Android operating system, according to Younan, cyber criminals apparently less motivated to search for vulnerabilities in smartphones. This is due to the open nature of Android that allows hackers to enter or send the user to a malicious application.
On the other hand, it is difficult to do on iOS devices because Apple controls the applications that are circulating in his platform tightly. Therefore, the cyber criminals increasingly challenged to find security holes in Apple's own software system.
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