Software Applications, the targets of vulnerabilities

I was just reading Somaââ?¬â?¢s blog post How vulnerable are software applications? and it really makes you think about how and what you create as an application designer.  According to a 2005 FBI survey, U.S. businesses lost $67.2 billion because of cyber crime, estimated in 2006 were $49.3 billion.
While these numbers are staggering in themselves, in our June 2007 Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, we see that less then 10% of these vulnerabilities were targeted at the Operating System.  All the others were targeted at the application layer.





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