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IBM Names Itself Worst Company For Fixing Critical Software Security Bugs |
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Source: Forbes - Posted by Anthony Pell
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IBM’s security researchers seem to have located the problem. And it is IBM.
Last Wednesday, IBM’s X-Force security research team published its twice-annual study tracking the latest vulnerabilities and new attacks online.
The report also ranked software companies according to their record of patching known security vulnerabilities in the software they sell. And the results of that ranking look worst for none other than the tech giant that performed the study.
IBM’s report, when it was first released, seemed to cast an unflattering light on some of the company’s competitors: Sun Microsystems–now owned by Oracle–had left unpatched 24% of all the hackable security flaws in the company’s software that were disclosed this year. When IBM filtered those unpatched security flaws by severity, however, Google came out as the least likely to patch critical security bugs in its software that would allow a hacker to completely hijack a target system, leaving 33% of those high severity flaws unpatched over the first half of the year.
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