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7000 new vulnerabilities so far

Posted by Gunter Ollmann on December 18, 2006 at 4:58 PM EST.

Well, what do you know.  Today X-Force just recorded and researched the 7,000th vulnerability for 2006.

The total for 2005 was 5,195 vulnerabilities for the whole year.

We still have another two weeks in 2006 for more vulnerabilities.  Since we're averaging about 140 per week, it looks like we're probably going to reach the 7,250 mark for the whole year - but you never know what will happen.  Perhaps the Litchfields at NGS Software will drop 100 new Oracle Database vulnerabilities the day before Christmas - similar to what happened in 2004.

Anyhow, 2006 has turned out to be the biggest year for security vulnerabilities ever!

Get patching!

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