Greedy Scumbag Offers Ad Space in Vulnerability Report

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via SecurityFocus.

[snip]

A security researcher who previously tried to auction off a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel plans to sell ad space in 
the public report about the flaw, SecurityFocus has learned.

The researcher has teamed up with security firm HexView to release details of the vulnerability on the same day that 
Microsoft releases the patch for the Excel flaw, the researcher, who uses the monicker "fearwall", stated in an e-mail 
to SecurityFocus. The company will hold an auction through e-mail with the highest two bidders getting advertising 
within in the announcement.

The announcement is [just] the latest attempt by the security researcher to make money from finding a flaw in Microsoft 
flagship spreadsheet application.

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http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/110

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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