The number of vulnerabilities in WINDOWS XP has doubled

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In 2013, the number of vulnerabilities in Windows 7 and XP doubled compared with 2012 . This was reported by the Danish security company Secunia 's latest report .

In 2013, experts found in Windows 7102 vulnerability ( 50 more than the previous year ) , in XP - 99 ( 49 more than in 2012 ) . In Windows 8, attended by 156 holes , 55 of which were associated with the integration of Adobe Flash Player in the browser Internet Explorer.

By the number of vulnerabilities in the list of 50 most popular software products from Microsoft occupy the first three positions (XML Core Services, Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer). Flash Player from Adobe was on the fifth place , Reader - in the seventh. Located on the tenth line Java platform from Oracle.

For 86% of vulnerabilities in popular software patches were released on the day of their discovery. However, the report notes that the gap between detection and output gap corrections suggests that researchers continue to coordinate their reports with vendors and programs reward for discovered vulnerabilities .

76% of vulnerabilities falls on third-party software from different vendors , which is 10% less than in 2012 . Nevertheless , in the past year, experts Secunia found only 10 actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities for which no update was released .