Re: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim

[Cody Tubbs <tubbs () wispdirect com>]

It's cheaper to pay kids 50k for actually finding flaws, rather than 
paying hundreds of QA engineers 60-100k a pop to spend months finding 
nothing.  Another reason M$ sucks, exploit the exploiters.

-Cody Tubbs

Radu Oprisan wrote:
> Ryan Meyer wrote:
>   
> > A number of popular tech news sources are reporting Trend Micro's CTO,
> > Raimund Genes, publicly claiming that there are "auctions" for zero-day
> > Windows Vista exploits. Further, he claims these auctions are fetching
> > approx $50,000.
> >
> > Could anyone verify Trend Micro's claim?
> >     
>
>   
> > It seems dubious, at best, to me and possibly nothing more than pure FUD.
> >
> > Sorry to get off topic.
> >
> > Ryan Meyer
> >     
>
> This could also be some covert way for microsoft to find their own
> vulnerabilities. That has happened before.
>
>