Open Source Vulnerabilities
High-impact vulnerabilities from open source software will continue to be discovered.
Heartbleed (of OpenSSL) and Shellshock (of Bash) vulnerabilities hit hard over the past years. If OpenSSL and Bash, which have been in existence for a long time, still have vulnerabilities, what can be said about more recent open source software applications such as Hadoop, OpenStack and Docker? As the popularity of open source projects grows, security researchers and hackers will be attracted to the projects and more vulnerabilities will be discovered, security experts at Hillstone Networks believe. The impact of newfound vulnerabilities will be directly proportional to the popularity of the open source project, and we can expect this to be a growing concern as we go into 2016.