80% of more than 3,000 software security flaws publicly reported so far this year have been in Web technologies. Nine out of 10 of the flaws were found in commercial code, report says. Attacks targeting these flaws have also risen sharply, in some cases doubling in less than a year. Vulnerabilities in Web applications can allow attackers to steal data, plant malicious code, break into other systems. Growing number of Web applications and Web sites that spring up each year, researcher Chenxi Wang says.”]
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