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Report: Half of Apps Have Security Problems

Posted September 22, 2010 8:07 AM

From CNET News.com:

More than half of software used in enterprises has security problems, according to a new report to be released today from Veracode, an application security company. Veracode looked at more than 2,900 applications over an 18-month period that were used by its cloud-based customers and found that 57 percent of all the apps were found to have unacceptable application security quality.

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Re: Report: Half of Apps Have Security Problems

09/23/2010 4:32 AM

everyone has an evil, deep-inside impulse to look into another's things. call it perversion, or a hankering for "knowledge", whatever.

what better way to do this than an innocent-looking and very-useful software? I've always suspected this was the case, so it's not news for me. the SW programmers did these, themselves.

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