Re: For Sale: Security Vulnerability Database Company

[Russell J Foster <rjf () russfoster com>]

True. But either way, the credibility of the offer is extrememly low.
Some bozo has been "solicited" to sell a company...who is he? Is he an
attorney? A corporate raider? Someone who's gathered the freely
available info and wants to make a quick sleezy buck?

If this were a serious offer, I'd at least expect a phone number and
website (of the company brokering the sale). Not a "reply to my
googlemail account"...

-r

--- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:46:03 PST, System Outage said:
>
> >   Why would someone buy a security vulnerability database company?
> Theres
> > already free security vulnerability databases out there. Try this
> one I
> > recently found, you can search for anything you want
> http://groups.google.com/
> > group/n3td3v and its free.
>
> Geez. Somebody hand me a sharp wooden stake, a good mallet, and some
> garlic
> and holy water just in case... ;)
>
> I'm sure you can *search* for anything you want there.  The value of
> a database
> is, however, directly related to its ability to return useful
> information.
>
> 5,000 postings that all say "wow leet hole in ntp a few years ago" is
> worth
> nowhere near as much as one detailed technical posting of how that
> exploit
> leveraged a one-byte buffer overrun into a complete rooting of the
> box....
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