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Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim
From: Cody Tubbs <tubbs () wispdirect com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:40:28 -0800
It's cheaper to pay kids 50k for actually finding flaws, rather than paying hundreds of QA engineers 60-100k a pop to spend months finding nothing. Another reason M$ sucks, exploit the exploiters.
-Cody Tubbs Radu Oprisan wrote:
Ryan Meyer wrote:A number of popular tech news sources are reporting Trend Micro's CTO, Raimund Genes, publicly claiming that there are "auctions" for zero-day Windows Vista exploits. Further, he claims these auctions are fetching approx $50,000. Could anyone verify Trend Micro's claim?It seems dubious, at best, to me and possibly nothing more than pure FUD. Sorry to get off topic. Ryan MeyerThis could also be some covert way for microsoft to find their own vulnerabilities. That has happened before.
Current thread:
- Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Ryan Meyer (Dec 19)
- Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Sels, Roger (Dec 19)
- Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Radu Oprisan (Dec 19)
- Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Cody Tubbs (Dec 19)
- RE: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Chris Poulter (Dec 19)
- RE: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Sels, Roger (Dec 19)
- RE: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Chris Poulter (Dec 19)
- Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Cody Tubbs (Dec 19)
- Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim Cody Tubbs (Dec 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim krymson (Dec 19)