Progress Being Made In IT Security War, IBM Says
April 2, 2012 Alex Woodie
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IBM saw a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code, and spam last year as system makers and software developers tightened up their code, the vendor says in its latest X-Force report. When that attack surface got smaller, cybercriminals were forced to work their black magic in emerging areas, like social networking and mobile devices. IBM’s semi-annual tally of the state of security identified some promising trends. On the spam front, it found a 50 percent decline in unsolicited commercial email compared to 2010. On the vulnerability front, it found that only 36 percent of previously identified vulnerabilities were still |
