Software crackers who make money breaking other people’s software don’t usually get rich from their skills. With the release of iDefense Labs report on Emerging Economic Models for Vulnerability Research, this may be changing.

When recommending penetration testing for a corporate network the first question is usually, ”Why would we need penetration testing?” The first answer is, if you don’t they will. Everyday malicious and sometimes just overly curious people use their computers to run automated testing scripts that look for system vulnerabilities to record and potentially later exploit. Sometimes the [...]