According to this story your ID (if you are a US citizen is now worth about $2. This is a pretty simple example of the laws of supply and demand hitting the ID market. The market appears to be flooded at the moment thus cost are going down. It is interesting that EU IDs are still high, in the $30 range. Scarcity or the value of the Euro coming into play here?
Then the quote that really hit home:
Also popular with attackers are Web site-specific vulnerabilities because few are fixed quickly. Of 11,253 so-called “cross-site scripting” vulnerabilities found on specific sites during the second half of 2007, only 473 were patched.
Yeah virtual patching is really going to be a bad thing huh?
Post from: Grumpy Security Guy
