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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities On the Market

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-as-good-as-my-negative-four-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Zero-day vulnerabilities have become prized possessions to attackers and defenders alike. As the recent China-Google attack demonstrated, they are the basis on which most of the successful attacks are crafted these days. There is an underground market growing around these vulnerabilities, but there are also 'white markets' — set up by VeriSign, TippingPoint, Google — where they buy zero-day flaws and alert the companies so that they can patch their products before the vulnerabilities can be taken advantage of."

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  1. This is why we need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    someone to invent time travel. Then someone could go into the future, get all the patches and fixes to various popular software, come back in time, and give it to us. Problem solved.

    1. Re:This is why we need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      But the evil hackers with time travel will then go to the future to find out exploits before they've been found in the past.

    2. Re:This is why we need... by BartholomewBernsteyn · · Score: 5, Funny

      But the evil hackers with time travel will then go to the future to find out exploits before they've been found in the past.

      ...and that's exactly why need regulation with regards to time travel and access to time travel machinery, now. You there, drop that screwdriver!

    3. Re:This is why we need... by guruevi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't worry, almost all classic DeLorean's have rotted away and we're still waiting on non-Newtonian Physicists to invent a Flux Capacitor.

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