Consumer behaviors are the root of open source risk

Sonatype unveiled its eighth annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report which, in addition to a massive surge in open source supply, demand, and malicious attacks, found that 96% of open source Java downloads with known-vulnerabilities could have been avoided because a better version was available, but was ignored. According to the report, this means 1.2 billion known-vulnerable dependencies that could be avoided are being downloaded every month, pointing to non-optimal consumption behaviors as … More

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