Almost a quarter of reported vulnerabilities have no known solution

The number of reported vulnerabilities in 2018 is seven percent down on the same period last year, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. It's not all good news though, as 24.9 percent of 2018's reported vulnerabilities currently have no known solution which is a reminder that, while patching is very important, it can't be relied on exclusively as a remedy. Vulnerabilities with a CVSSv2 score of 9.0+, often referred to as 'critical', accounted for 15.4 percent of all published vulnerabilities through the third quarter. Also, Risk Based Security's own VulnDB published 4,823 more vulnerabilities than CVE/NVD through… [Continue Reading]