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Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim

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Subject: Trend Micro's Vista "0day exploit auction" claim
From: "Ryan Meyer" <lists@youthinkitweprintit.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:59:15 -0600
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A number of popular tech news sources are reporting Trend Micro's CTO, Raimund Genes, publicly claiming that there are "auctions" for zero-day Windows Vista exploits. Further, he claims these auctions are fetching approx $50,000.

Could anyone verify Trend Micro's claim?

It seems dubious, at best, to me and possibly nothing more than pure FUD.

Sorry to get off topic.

Ryan Meyer

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