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Google Joins List of Companies with most Software Holes

Posted: 25 Aug 2010, 21:40
by dedanna1029
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/googl ... les-082510

With Web based software vulnerabilities on the rise, Google displaces HP on the list of vendors with the most reported software holes in the first half of 2010.
software vulnerabilities.

The number of reported software vulnerabilities spiked in the first half of 2010, dashing hopes that growth in the number of discovered holes had plateaued, according to a new report from IBM's Internet Security Systems X-Force, with Google joining the ranks of the ten software vendors with the most reported software vulnerabilities.

More at the link.

Re: Google Joins List of Companies with most Software Holes

Posted: 25 Aug 2010, 21:45
by viking60
Lets hope they get around to patching them. The could cooperate more with the open source community to get some help of course. +1

Re: Google Joins List of Companies with most Software Holes

Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 01:08
by gnuuser
The could cooperate more with the open source community to get some help of course.

that would make sense and would be a wise idea
but the hard part is corporation execs don't like to admit they make mistakes and would rather point fingers

Re: Google Joins List of Companies with most Software Holes

Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 02:40
by dedanna1029
gnuuser wrote:that would make sense and would be a wise idea

Exactly why they wouldn't do it.