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The company moved quickly to fix the vulnerability.
Hackers keep them secret so that the intended victim doesn't identify and fix the vulnerability, thereby rendering the exploit worthless.
A zero-day is a previously undisclosed flaw that leaves computer users with zero days to fix the vulnerability.
"Why don't they pay people to fix the vulnerability, rather than pay for people to go to jail for exploiting them?" asked Mark Rasch, chief security counsel at Solutionary Inc., a security company based in Omaha, Neb.
The computer system was under attack by a rogue program called SQL Slammer, which affected servers running Microsoft software that had not been updated with a patch -- issued months ago -- to fix the vulnerability.
At the time Moore gave TalkTalk a poor cybersecurity rating after running tests on its website, but its score was later increased after the company took steps to fix the vulnerability.
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Realizing these tools were stolen, the N.S.A. had warned affected companies like Microsoft and Cisco so they could fix the vulnerabilities.
Despite High-Tech Bridge contacting WEF, the organisation didn't fix the vulnerabilities until the security researchers went public with what they had found on Wednesday, five days after the Forum was first contacted.
While the presentation was canceled to allow manufacturers more time to fix the vulnerabilities, Juniper had originally notified the company almost eight months ago, says the source, who asked not to be named.
"What DepShield and OSS Index are doing is allowing the developers at the front lines to be able to see what's happening inside their applications and fix the vulnerabilities directly," Jackson said.
"When notified about vulnerabilities in election systems, his response has been to shoot the messenger rather than fix the vulnerabilities".
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