SecurityRatty: Vulnerability Bazaar

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Vulnerability Bazaar

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy

The commoditization of bugs is a long-standing tradition in the software industry. It started when companies began offering a cash incentive for each critical bug a developer squashed. This practice of attaching intrinsic monetary value to bugs is the spiritual predecessor of the "pure" vulnerability markets that this article discusses.