Security News > 2020 > May > Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?

Over the first quarter of 2020, the number of security bugs disclosed by software makers fell 20 per cent though not for any of the right reasons, it seems.

Analysts at Risk Based Security cited both internal data and public reports from vendors in putting the number of security vulnerabilities reported over the first three months of the year at 4,968, down from 6,198 over the same period in 2019.

This marks the first time in 10 years that the biz has seen a drop from the previous year's quarter.

"At the end of the year as companies staff their security teams back up we might see them retroactively release advisories."

The number of publicly disclosed bugs is likely to pick up over the course of the year, and as the backlogs start to get sorted out, the analyst believes the total tally could climb back up around 6,000, still down slightly from 2019, but more in line with the levels seen in previous years.

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