During the first half of 2010, more than 4,300 new disclosures of software security issues came to light. That’s according to the mid-year report issued by IBM’s special X-Force security research team. What’s perhaps a bit more disturbing is how many of those vulnerabilities remain unfixed. More than half of the vulnerabilities identified during the report period, 55 percent, had no vendor-supplied patch at the end of the first half of the year, IBM researchers found.
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IBM's X-Force: No Telling How Many Unpatched Web Threats Are Out There
Posted by: Kimberly Hill August 27, 2010 09:43 AMDuring the first half of 2010, more than 4,300 new disclosures of software security issues came to light. That’s according to the mid-year report issued by IBM’s special X-Force security research team. What’s perhaps a bit more disturbing is how many of those vulnerabilities remain unfixed. More than half of the vulnerabilities identified during the report period, 55 percent, had no vendor-supplied patch at the end of the first half of the year, IBM researchers found.