June has been a security scorcher

The sun may well be shining but, as far as IT security is concerned, the summer has got off to a pretty poor start. According to the Fortinet Threat Landscape report for June, which has just been published, the FortiGuard Labs covered 201 new vulnerabilities this period. I’ll repeat that, more than 200 NEW vulnerabilities in the space of a month and that’s nearly double the number from last month. Of these, some 71 (or 35% if your prefer) were being actively exploited by the bad guys before the month was out.