The number of vulnerabilities in the Top-50 most popular programs typically installed on end-user PCs is increasing at an alarming rate. This trend is primarily driven by the increase in vulnerabilities discovered in 3rd party programs (non-Microsoft), which have exceeded Microsoft as the criminal’s preferred target.

Malware on endpoint devices is quickly becoming the biggest source of identity theft and financial fraud. Over the past twelve months, modern malware attacks have been growing significantly in number and sophistication, with new variants being released almost every day. This makes it extremely difficult for traditional solutions such as the anti-virus to keep up [...]