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More Software Vulnerabilities Disclosed in 2016 Than Ever Before.

Authors :
Kerner, Sean M.
Source :
eWeek. 2/6/2017, p1-1. 1p.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

The article focuses on a finding by Risk Based Security Inc.'s VulnDB vulnerability tracking system regarding 15,000 reported vulnerabilities in 2016. It is noted that a Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System (CVSS) score of between 9.0 and 10.0 has been assigned to 21.3% of vulnerabilities in VulnDB. It is noted that 80.1% of vulnerabilities were verified by a vendor as reported by VulnDB.

Subjects

Subjects :
*COMPUTER security vulnerabilities
*DATA security failures
*DATA protection
*COMPUTER software industry

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15306283
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
eWeek
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
121177903

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