RAND corporation recently received rare access to study a couple hundred 0-day vulnerabilities and their exploits.
It turns out that 0-day vulnerability discoveries live for about 6.9 years, and that the ones found by a pair of serious opponents (typically nation-state governments) have only a few percent overlap. This means that releasing discoveries to the public provides very little defensive value while obviously destroying offensive ability.
The report (summary and full text[PDF]) includes quite a bit more about the industry, including some estimates of pricing and headcount.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 22 2017, @04:17PM
The level of clueless hurts.