Many business apps with open source code have unpatched vulnerabilities and license conflicts

Apps that come with open-source code are putting organizations at risk, according to a new report by Black Duck. As you might imagine, many companies are using apps with open-source code. Black Duck’s Center for Open Source Research & Innovation analyzed 1,071 apps audited during 2016 and found that 96 percent of them had open source. Of those, more than 60 percent had open source security vulnerabilities. In the financial industry, there were 52 open source vulnerabilities per application. Sixty percent had "high-risk" vulnerabilities. In the retail and e-commerce industry, there was the highest proportion of apps with high-risk open… [Continue Reading]