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Open Source Code Is As Good As Proprietary, Says Coverity

Open source code scanned by Coverity had slightly fewer flaws per 1000 lines

Researchers are spending too much effort finding bugs and not enough on making exploits difficult to create, according to Adobe

Oracle may not be paying attention to its flagship database software and underreporting the severity of a "fundamental" flaw

The majority of applications scanned by Veracode's cloud-based testing tool held some kind of security flaw

Organisations are transmitting sensitive data without any security due to improper SSL configuration

ViaForensics tests showed that 76 out of 100 mobile apps did not store user account names securely

Phishing activity declined in 2010, but more vulnerabilities and targeted attacks were identified, says IBM

Researchers discovered several webOS security flaws, including a bug that could help attackers create botnets