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The survey found that 725 new software flaws in the third quarter of this year, down slightly from 727 found in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
However, the 823 new worms and viruses that appeared between July 1 and September represented a 26 percent increase from the previous three months.<\/p>\n
“The window of time between vulnerability disclosure and the release of a working exploit continues to shrink, leaving enterprises with even less time to learn about and prevent attacks,” Chris Rouland, vice president of Internet Security Systems’ vulnerability research team, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n
Security software maker Symantec also pointed to anecdotal evidence that the time was shrinking between the first public mention of details of a software flaw and the release of code exploiting the flaw.<\/p>\n
Three serious Internet attacks–MSBlast, MSBlast.D and SoBig.F–struck in August.<\/p>\n
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center’s latest report indicates that the number of flaws that will appear in 2003 is likely to be smaller than in 2002.<\/p>\n
That’s a first: Between 1999 and 2002, the number of vulnerabilities recorded by CERT roughly doubled every year.<\/p>\n
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