The truth about software low-hanging-fruit vulnerability

If you were to just take weekly media reports and monthly security researcher statistics as your metric, then I suspect it would be a safe bet to suggest that you would say software security vulnerabilities are on a steep upwards curve. Furthermore, it is just as likely that given the media exposure to such events as Microsoft Patch Tuesday and the furore when Adobe or Apple announce a hole has been discovered in a high profile product, you would say that things are only getting worse as far as the big software vendors are concerned.