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.
While the analysts are not certain why there was such a sharp fall, they say it's probable that the dip had more to do with COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, and resulting economic downturn, than any sudden improvements in the quality of code being written.
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