Comments on: IBM's X-Force Security Report Details Security Trends

By: Cole Markoff

Cole Markoff — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:58:37 +0000

I dispise the phishing emails they appear to get more desperate by the day I get two or three everyday and submit them to phishtrackers a site I recently found that allows you to report them anonymously.

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WebWorkerDaily » Archive McAfee Site Advisor Ferrets Out the Funk « — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:01:14 +0000

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WebWorkerDaily » Archive Keep an Eye on Your Software Updates « — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:01:31 +0000

[...] days, we have a right to have some knowledge of what’s being placed on our computers. As I wrote about recently, Apple and Microsoft are both atop the list of reported security vulnerabilities among software [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:34:25 +0000

I would also be curious to find out if there were distinctions made between the core application and extensions. I see Joomla extensions show up all the time on watch lists because of sql injection vulnerabilities, etc. I suspect those numbers may be inflated because of weaknesses in peripheral software.

By: Rob Clayburn

Rob Clayburn — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:57:33 +0000

completely agree with harlan. I skimmed the report but didnt see any mention of how quickly any explots were fixed, which to me is a pretty relevant piece of info

By: harlan

harlan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:02:22 +0000

So just to be clear, a product with scads of undisclosed vulnerabilities appears better in this study than one which quickly and openly deals with its problems. It’s hard to measure what you can’t track, but these numbers don’t tell the full story.