Better tools let hackers strike more quickly
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“It’s mostly bad news for network administrators at this year’s Black Hat Security Briefings: Increasingly, attackers are using better tools to find vulnerabilities quickly, exploit flaws and hide their attacks. While some security experts point to zero-day exploits–code that takes advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities–as a growing threat, a greater number are stressing the danger of online attackers’ ability to quickly turn around attack code by analyzing the patch issued to fix the problem. “Within a day, you can take a patch, find a problem, and produce an exploit,” said Jeff Moss, the founder of the Black Hat Security Briefings, which kicked off Wednesday. “If a patch is released one day and an exploit comes out the next day, that doesn’t leave companies much time to see to their security.” “