RE: [inbox] RE: What's wrong with this picture?

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

Replugge wrote:

>  The fact that exploit code is made available after the patch
> is released,
> is probably because the researchers
> Made the vulnerability publicly available at same time as the
> patch was
> released, otherwise MS wouldnt give
> Credit to the researchers for the vuln.

Not only that, but I have always suspected the reason for the close
follow-up releasing exploits after patch release is because the value of the
0-day that had been used for whatever purposes the writer wanted was now
null.  At that point, her pride takes over and she releases her work for the
world to see.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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