[HIB]Security Vulnerabilities Spike 36 Percent In First Half Of 2010

The number of new security vulnerabilities detected around the world reached 4,396 in the first six months of this year, up 36 percent from the same period last year, according to an IBM report. And the rapid proliferation of virtualized IT infrastructure, combined with growing adoption of cloud computing, could lead to even more significant increases in the number of IT security threats against businesses, according to the report from IBM's X-Force Research and Development team, a security research organization within IBM that's charged with tracking and analyzing IT security threats. The X-Force Trend and Risk Report, released Wednesday, also said that 55 percent of the vulnerabilities discovered during the six-month period had no vendor-supplied patch as of mid-year. On the positive side, businesses and organizations are doing more to identify and disclose security vulnerabilities, leading to more collaboration to find and eliminate vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them, according to IBM.

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