Vulnerability

You've Got Vulnerability: Exploring Effective Vulnerability Notifications

Security researchers can send vulnerability notifications to take proactive measures in securing systems at scale. However, the factors affecting a notification’s efficacy have not been deeply explored. In this paper, we report on an extensive study of notifying thousands of parties of security issues present within their networks, with an aim of illuminating which fundamental aspects of notifi...

5.3 Vulnerability

Vulnerability Markets

Vulnerabilities are errors in computer systems which can be exploited to breach security mechanisms. Such information can be very valuable as it decides about the success of attack or defense in computer networks. This essay introduces into the economic perspective on computer security and discusses the advantages and drawbacks of different concepts for vulnerability markets, where security-rel...

Assessing vulnerability

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Vulnerability scanners

Computer networks are used by organisations and companies as a carrier of communication and services. Disruption of the network service can severally harm the organisation. A vulnerability scanner can find weaknesses in a computer network before a potential attacker does. It scans the network for vulnerabilities by testing weaknesses and by gathering information about different entities active ...