Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006

Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-01-17

Flaws in Web applications boosted the bug counts for 2006 by more than a third over the previous year, according to data obtained by SecurityFocus from the four major vulnerability databases.

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Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006 2007-01-18
Anonymous

they ain't easy to find, its just more people are looking for them....

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Good data, bad conclusion 2007-01-18
OWASP

Don't take security advice from the devil you know! The devil you know lies. Especially about security flaws. This article notes an increase in vulnerabilities found in open source packages and concludes that... "For the personal sites and the mom-and-pop stores that rely on the software, it certai...

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Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006 2007-01-23
Anonymous

I did a quick search in the National Vulnerability Database on the number of vulnerabilities in Mac OSX and Windows XP. There was an interesting result. For the first time that I am aware of Max OSX had more High rated vulnerabilities than Windows XP. There were 28 Highs for OSX and 23 Highs for ...

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