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Vulnerability Broker to Enforce a Six-Month Deadline

Ryan Naraine reporting in ThreatPost: "Looking to put pressure on software vendors who procrastinate on fixing security flaws, the world's biggest broker of vulnerability data is drawing a line in the sand. Starting tomorrow (August 4, 2010), TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) will enforce a six-month deadline for patches on all vulnerabilities bought from the security research community and reported to software vendors."

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