US-CERT Reports 17,447 Vulnerabilities Recorded in 2020
This Dark Reading article, published December 16, 2020, reports that US-CERT recorded a record 17,447 vulnerabilities in 2020, the fourth straight year of record totals. Founder and CTO Casey Ellis writes that bug reports show a 65% rise in P1 submissions and a 4% gain in valid submissions, with hackers finding higher-impact bugs.
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This marks the fourth year in a row that a record number of vulnerabilities has been discovered, following 17,306 in 2019.