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Open Source Platforms Arrive On IBM's Most Vulnerable List

IBM Internet Security Systems is out with its X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report. This is an extremely exhaustive look at security vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source software. Full Article at OStatic

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  1. An obvious trend demonstrated by the appearance of these vendors on the top ten list is the increasing prevalence of web-related vulnerabilities
    SOURCE: OStatic 16 months ago
  2. Another commonality between these three vendors is that they are all written in PHP. If we look back over last year’s disclosures and apply the new CPE methodology to them, we would uncover another newcomer to the top five list, PHP itself, which would rank number four in the 2007 top five vendor list.
    SOURCE: OStatic 16 months ago
  3. Drupal, another open-source content management system for web sites.
    SOURCE: OStatic 16 months ago
  4. This new methodology plus some changes in the vulnerability landscape has brought some newcomers to our top ten list: Joomla!, an open-source content management system for web sites
    SOURCE: OStatic 16 months ago
  5. Unlike other partnerships including Google and IBM's where the lower-level stacks are not provided in an open manner to the world, we want open access to all levels of the hardware. The Google approach is a proprietary way of building the hardware, and essentially all you see is the software layer at th...
    SOURCE: Techtree.com 16 months ago
  6. In addition, applications that have been secured for Web attacks may still be insecure to attacks through SOA. To be clear, the frameworks themselves are secure, but they have to be appropriately configured and used in order to avoid serious security issues
    SOURCE: ZDNet 16 months ago
  7. Security is always a worry, even with services within the enterprise ... There must be some mechanisms to ensure quality of service inside the process.
    SOURCE: Internet.com 16 months ago
  8. Enterprises will need some method to ensure trust with suppliers of services, and I think a lot of the necessary technologies for that haven't been invented yet
    SOURCE: Internet.com 16 months ago
  9. There's going to be companies out there that build processes and sell them either through a private or a public registry
    SOURCE: Internet.com 16 months ago
  10. This is going to be a whole new business model
    SOURCE: Internet.com 16 months ago
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