Sentence examples for buy vulnerabilities from inspiring English sources

"And now that there's competition from third parties who buy vulnerabilities, they'll have to move even faster".

Companies, including 3Com's TippingPoint division and iDefense, offer to buy vulnerabilities from hackers for several thousand dollars apiece, promising to inform the vendor of exploitable flaws.

We were modernizing data centers, buying vulnerability-scanning software, and adding intrusion detection appliances - all things typical of anyone running an enterprise-scale network.

It used a variety of techniques to compromise machines and, in some cases, its creators seem to have bought undocumented vulnerabilities in software in order to penetrate some targets.

In other words, the vulnerabilities they buy often stay vulnerable, and so do the software's users.

"There's already this huge quasi-underground market where you can buy and sell vulnerabilities that have been discovered," said Rod Rasmussen, the president of IID.

By increasing the bounty to $100,000 for the most egregious exploits, the company no doubt hopes it will be able to lure hackers its way so the Chrome team can resolve the issues, rather than letting more sinister forces buy access to the vulnerabilities.

This was before the Snowden revelations, but we already knew that governments were buying "zero-day vulnerabilities" from security researchers.

David can play cocky and absurd without turning into a buffoon; he brings this vulnerability, so you buy it".

He found several Microsoft security flaws and reported them to the company directly before a friend told him about "vulnerability buying" programs like ZDI. "From that time on, I became a full-time bug hunter," he says.

The commission demands that the government only buy IT products that have passed strict vulnerability tests, requiring what SANS' Paller calls "baked-in" security rather than systems that require security to be "bolted on" after they're bought.