Study examines 200 real-world 'zero-day' software vulnerabilities
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 02:02
in Mathematics & Economics
Zero-day software vulnerabilities - security holes that developers haven't fixed or aren't aware of - can lurk undetected for years, leaving software users particularly susceptible to hackers. A new study from the RAND Corporation, based on rare access to a dataset of more than 200 such vulnerabilities, provides insights about what entities should do when they discover them.