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Study: Exploit Wednesday more myth than reality
Robert Lemos, 2007-06-26
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Study: Exploit Wednesday more myth than reality 2007-06-27
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)
Schmugar's results would likely be different if he looked solely at the 10 percent of vulnerabilities discovered in the wild. Then, I think he'd find the exploit Wednesday phenomenon more pronounced. There's a financial motive for those releasing zero-days to exploit them. That same financial mot...

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Re: Study: Exploit Wednesday more myth than reality 2007-07-01
Anonymous
Schmugar must know about russia, and the rest of the blackhats ...

Fact: No one can find "all 0days" in the wild, and if only the exploit wednesday was a myth, then nasa and microsoft won't be hacked every now and then ...

haha !...

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date of discovery, not release 2007-06-27
Anonymous
What they're actually studying (because it's what they can study) is not the date the flaws start being exploited in the wild, but the date they are discovered. In some cases, there are hints that a flaw was being used for quite some time before anyone found it.

It could well be that their concl...

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