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Businesses using software components with known security risk

June 26, 2019 Reprints

A report by U.S.-based tech firm Sonatype Inc. found that U.K.-based firms downloaded 21,000 or about one in 10 open source software components on average with a known security flaw in 2018, Software Testing News reported. The report found that about 30% of the components pose a serious cyber risk.

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