Which are the software world’s most attacked applications? All applications are attacked to some extent but as time has gone on a favourite list has started to emerge based on two fundamental weaknesses: how widely used that application happens to be and how many software vulnerabilities, known and unknown, have been uncovered in it.
The more popular an app, the larger the number of potential targets, and the more incentive there is to research its vulnerabilities, especially ‘zero day’ ones nobody knows about. That’s a good start for criminals, but it gets better. The more popular an app, the better the chances of finding a user who can be socially-engineered into clicking on an exploit hyperlink or running a malicious file attachment.If a particular app has been popular for a long enough there is also a good chance that many users won’t have patched themselves against even known vulnerabilities. Multiply all of this by the number of popular apps on a user’s PC, and the scale of software-derived vulnerability starts to become apparent.
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