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IBM makes some patches in its X-Force security threat report

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – IBM has made some patches – er, revisions – in that X-Force report issued last week about security threats and bug fixes.

NetworkWorld called the revisions an “overhaul.”

Andy Greenberg, writing at Forbes.com, notes that “Sun and Google have both been acquitted of their lax patching charges, and recounting bugs showed that Microsoft had the worst record for patching flaws of all severities over the last six months.

“And who held the record for leaving the most high severity software bugs unpatched? IBM.”

In a blog, X-Force acknowledged making numerous changes.

“After we released our trend report this week, we received feedback from two software vendors regarding the severity and remedy information for some of the vulnerabilities behind this chart. This sort of input is crucial for us - with more input from software vendors about vulnerability information we get greater accuracy in our snapshot of the industry,” IBM wrote.

“As a consequence of this feedback, we have manually reassessed the CVSS scoring, remedy information, and vendor information for every vulnerability that impacted the percentages that appear in this chart.”

The chart is included with this post.

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