This particular article was part of this week in security news, linked in a prior post here on the blog. Its a very interesting article, and i’m sure that these 130,000 applications are all mainstream applications covering a wide range of things.
Each week, the government’s email list I’m on sends out a vulnerability summary of various applications from adobe and many others. Last week saw a wide range of problems in high and medium categories from one app set alone. While I’m not targeting any one specific app, its important that 130,000 applications is probably a subset of the larger picture of which these applications are a part of.
Want to read more? 76% of applications have at least one security flaw comes from help net security. I’ve read from them before, and I’m happy to see them around. My blog post takes from the same title, which is linked here.