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Older Bugs in Software Add to Security Debt
In the rush to fix newer vulnerabilities, the older ones are left unaddressed. The resulting security debt increases the organization's risk of a breach, Veracode warned.
Being on the Latest Windows Version Can Thwart Zero Days
Zero day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild is never good news, but if the user's machine is running the latest version of the operating system, the chances are good that the attack won't be successful against that machine, according to a Microsoft security engineer.
GitHub Brings Automated Fixes With Dependabot
GitHub rolled out several new features designed to help developers write secure code at its recent GitHub Satellite conference last week in Berlin.
Open Source Software Needs Funding, Not Bug Bounty Programs
Bug bounty programs fill a need, but the European Union's offer to pay bug bounties for vulnerabilities in open source forgets one thing: projects don't need more flaws. Open source projects need people to fix the flaws.
GitHub Alerts Help Fix Bugs in Ruby, JavaScript Code
When GitHub unveiled its Security Alerts scanning feature last November, it was betting that if project owners knew which software components they were using had vulnerabilities, they would update them with patched versions. GitHub said that by Dec. 1, 450,000 vulnerabilities had been resolved, either by removing the dependency entirely or swapping out with a more recent, patched version. That's a little over 10 percent of the vulnerabilities addressed, right off the bat.