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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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Re: Security flaws on the rise, questions remain 2006-01-11
infamous41md
There are no solutions that completely mitigate the threat of vulnerabilities. From ret2libc attacks against NX to using pointers on the stack against ASLR the solutions have been circumvented. The focus should be on producing quality code. This means that both open and closed source projects sho...

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