Subscribers to organizations that sell exploits for vulnerabilities not yet known to software developers gain daily access to scores of flaws in the world's most popular technology, a study shows.
NSS Labs, which is in the business of testing security products for corporate subscribers, found that over the last three years, subscribers of two major vulnerability programs had access on any given day to at least 58 exploitable flaws in Microsoft, Apple, Oracle or Adobe products.
In addition, NSS labs found that an average of 151 days passed from the time when the programs purchased a vulnerability from a researcher and the affected vendor released a patch.
The findings, released Thursday, were based on an analysis of 10 years of data from TippingPoint, a network security maker Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2010, and iDefense, a security intelligence service owned by VeriSign. Both organizations buy vulnerabilities, inform subscribers and work with vendors in producing patches.
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