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October 07, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Information Sharing, Information Security

Kim Zetter, writing at Wired's Security blog, illustrates a key problem in the Information Security Research Realm. Read Kim's reportage over at Wired to learn more...

Organized by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a division of the US Commerce Department, the six-hour meeting marked one of the government’s first forays into the controversial world of bug reporting. But not all of the participants entirely welcomed the government’s involvement—some of them pointed out that a government that withholds information about zero-day vulnerabilities from software vendors in order to exploit them in the systems of adversaries is not exactly in a position to tell researchers and vendors how to handle the vulnerability disclosure process. - via Kim Zetter, writing at Wired's Security blog

October 07, 2015 /Marc Handelman
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