An IBM report has claimed that the vulnerabilities have risen by 36 per cent from last year.

The report has claimed that major flaws were remained unpatched.

IBM has stated that the X-Force report which comes with 4,396 new vulnerabilities in the very first six months of 2010. Interesting thing to be noted that approximately 55 per cent have not acquired the security patches from the carriers.

The IT sector which drifts towards cloud computing, has claimed to be securing approximately 55 per cent of the software threats that came up in initial six month period.

IBM seemingly has stated that Sun has grown over Microsoft for adding up to the maximum number of unpatched threats and a 24 percent of total unpatched security threats.

Microsoft ranks second with 23.2 per cent share and Firefox maker Mozilla came third with 21.3 per cent of unpatched security flaws.