Are You Using Insecure Open Source Components?

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 27, 2012

“I’m always suspicious when I see press releases and studies
that claim that somehow open source software is less secure than
other forms of software. That’s why I was particularly suspicious
of a new study out today sponsored by Apache Maven sponsor
Sonatype, claiming that there is widespread use of insecure open
source components.

According to the study:

There were more than 46 million downloads of insecure versions
of the 31 most popular open-source security libraries and web
frameworks.


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SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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