GFI Software has published a report on vulnerabilities discovered and reported in 2013, based on data from the National Vulnerability Database. The number of security vulnerabilities reported in 2013 reached 4,794, representing an average of 13 new bugs every day.
It is worth noting that this is the largest number of errors reported in the last five years.
According to GFI Software Product Manager Cristian Florian, about a third of the reported bugs were classified as "highly critical.".
The top ten companies – a list that includes Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Adobe, Red Hat and HP – were responsible for half of the total number of bugs.
The largest number of bugs were found in Oracle products – 514 in total, 193 of which affected Java. When it comes to high-risk bugs, most of them concern Microsoft software.
In 2013, the most targeted applications were Internet Explorer (128), Java (193), Chrome (168), Firefox (149), Thunderbird (113), and Firefox ESR (100).
For more details, see the GFI Software report.
