Security News > 2021 > June > The Vulnerabilities of the Past Are the Vulnerabilities of the Future

Major software vulnerabilities are a fact of life, as illustrated by the fact that Microsoft has patched between 55 and 110 vulnerabilities each month this year - with 7% to 17% of those vulnerabilities being critical.

The problem is that the critical vulnerabilities are things we have seen for many years, like remote code execution and privilege escalation.

With major vulnerabilities in so many applications, is there any hope for a secure future? The answer is, of course, yes, but that does not mean there won't be challenges getting there.

The vulnerabilities being seen may not be new to those of us who have been defending against attackers for years or even decades, but the adversaries continually change their tactics.

These attacks accounted for around 27% of the attacks in 2020, up from 7% the prior year.

While the common types of attacks may not change much, any changes to application or code have the potential to introduce new vulnerabilities.

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