Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock

Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-06-06

Software makers stand to lose significant market value whenever a flaw is found in their products, two university researcher said in a paper published on Friday.

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Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-07
Anonymous

I don't belive nothing about this studio. Just Look Microsoft. The biggest amount of vulnerability in one year (and lasts years also), and the shares are as high as ever....

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Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-08
Anonymous

Microsoft's shares would have been wiped out long ago if this was true. :)...

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Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-08
Anonymous

Well maybe they should take more time discovering holes using a in-house security team....

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Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-09
Anonymous

i cant believe this. "Hey, this is really bad, when a company make bad product, people start to loose faith in them". In fact, i understand why it make some people nervous, consumer may realise how poor the overall quality of computer related products is....

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Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-13
Anonymous

despite conflicting evidence, flaws should hurt your stock. You make a bad product and this is the penalty....

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Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-16
tarunthenut (1 replies)

If you track Microsoft stock price, you will find many a times when a vulnerability was discovered and even exploited, the stock prices remain unchanged.

This might be an indication that financial analysts (most people go by their words on stock) have understood that vulnerabilities and exploits ar...

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Re: Study: Flaw disclosure hurts software maker's stock 2005-06-23
Ricardo

That is true, but the question is why it does not applies so much to others?

Anyway, I think Bugs are overrated out there. Many non-IT non-SW companies have created defects ("bugs"?) that actually cause accidents that kill people (which is VEERY BAD), and they are still out there shining like alw...

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