US-CERT: 5,198 Software Flaws in 2005

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Hmmm. Banner year. :-)

[snip]

Security researchers uncovered a record 5,198 vulnerabilities in software products this year, nearly 38 percent more 
than the number of flaws found in 2004, according to statistics published by US-CERT, a cyber security 
information-sharing collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security and the CERT Coordination Center at 
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

According to US-CERT, researchers found 812 flaws in the Windows operating system, 2,328 problems in various versions 
of the Unix/Linux operating systems (Mac included). An additional 2,058 flaws affected multiple operating systems. 
There may well have been more than 5,198 flaws discovered this year; these were only the ones reported to US-CERT.

[snip]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/12/uscert_5198_sof.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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