IT Vulnerabilities Fell in 2009

IT Vulnerabilities Fell in 2009

IT Support was and will be always needed for IT vulnerabilities that IT services users have to face when surfing the Internet. Even though the number of software vulnerabilities has gone down in 2009, the IT security problems in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent. This is all according to the annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report from IT company IBM.

The team of IT engineers gathered data in 2009, it analyzed it and they found out that there were 6,601 new vulnerabilities, which is 11 percent less than in 2008. The thing with these vulnerabilities is that, according to IBM's report, they affected just four vendors: Microsoft, Adobe, Mozilla and Apple. Tom Cross, IBM X-Force research manager, said that "There's definitely a group of bad guys out there that are targeting that piece of software. The importance of identifying and fixing Web application vulnerabilities has never been greater than it is right now."