It has been reported that open-source software projects continue to struggle with handling sensitive information, according to automated scans of hundreds of millions of commits to code repositories. Driven by increased research into software security, more software under development, companies’ greater openness to vulnerability reporting, and perhaps most of all – improvements to the process of recording vulnerability reports – the number of software security issues published in the National Vulnerability Database rose to the highest recorded level in 2019, surpassing 17,300 issues reported during the year.
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