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Security flaws on the rise, questions remain
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-05

After three years of modest or no gains, the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities jumped in 2005, boosted by easy-to-find bugs in Web applications. Yet, questions remain about the value of analyzing current databases, whose data rarely correlates easily.

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Security flaws on the rise, questions remain 2006-01-10
R_U_Trustified? (1 replies)
Since "the most important, and perhaps obvious, lesson is that the software flaws are here to stay", the focus should be on solutions that prevent vulnerabilities from being turned into viable threats, since patching is not effective against zero day attacks anyway.

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