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GitHub Reports Over Four Million Flaws In JavaScript And Ruby Libraries

Calendar Mar 22, 2018 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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GitHub says its security scan for old vulnerabilities in JavaScript and Ruby libraries has turned up over four million bugs and sparked a major clean-up by project owners. The massive bug find total was reached within a month of the initiative's launch in November when GitHub began scanning for known vulnerabilities in certain popular open-source libraries and notifying project owners that they should be using an updated version.