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Nine in ten biz applications harbor out-of-date, unsupported, insecure open-source code, study shows

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Free-as-in-speech software is wildly popular – keeping libraries, components up to date is not. Ninety-one per cent of commercial applications include outdated or abandoned open source components, underscoring the potential vulnerability of organizations using untended code, according to a software review.…

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