This year’s Equifax breach was a reminder that open source software and components pose a giant risk to enterprise security. In April, researchers at Flashpoint Intelligence said criminals were using brute-force password attacks against the popular open source Magento ecommerce platform. Open source code has grown in popularity over the years and is used by companies of all sizes, in all industry verticals. Even commercial software is typically built on a foundation of open source code. It’s used in commercial software, but not properly maintained.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3157377/open-source-software-security-challenges-persist.html