Talk about some good news… the idea of vulnerabilities being down in 2007 is a nice testament that businesses and software companies are taking more time to debug and secure their applications.  While that may be the case, I think a huge part of the decrease in vulnerabilities has to do with Vista.  Granted, it still has its vulnerabilities but then again, what operating system doesn’t?  Hopefully this will be a trend that will only get better as time progresses.

Internet Security Systems released a part of its X-Force 2007 Trend Statistics Report on Tuesday, showing an overall decrease in the number of vulnerabilities reported in 2007.

The report, which the security services division of IBM plans to release piecemeal, found that researchers reported 5.4 percent fewer vulnerabilities in 2007 compared to 2006. The drop marks the first decrease in reported flaws since 2000, according to a post on ISS’s X-Force blog. The X-Force found that high-severity vulnerabilities increased by 28 percent year over year.[more]

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