Penetration Testing: Re: Different methods of obtaining exploits

[Neil <neil () voidfx net>]

I agree.  Actually finding exploitable vulns in applications is a time
consuming job, and I think you'll find more people who do that working
under the title "Security Researcher" than pen-tester.

Neil

On 1/29/2006 9:49 AM, FocusHacks wrote:
> I'd say 100% of pen testers use exploits found on mailing lists and
> security sites, and I would be willing to bet a good 25% of them are
> getting exploits from friends and other limited-distribution channels
> on top of using published exploits.
>
> Honestly I'd bet the number of pen-testers actively finding holes to
> exploit is probably in the single-digit percentages.  There may be 25%
> who take an advisory and reverse engineer the app to code an exploit
> for it, or re-vamp some POC code to be useable in the field, but I
> doubt 25% are actually finding the bugs to begin with.
>
> On 1/26/06, yawgmoth7 <yawgmoth7 () gmail com> wrote:
> > I've always wondered about this, I do not know why. But just the
> > different ways that pen-testers get their exploits/vullnerabilities. I
> > think it would go something like this:
> > 50% From online security sites
> > 25% Find their own
> > 25% From their friends
> >
> > Have I left any out? If so, go ahead and add it, this is just about
> > what I think it would be. This has always interesting me for some
> > reason.
> >
> > See ya
> > --
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> > Gurus'Network - Are you a guru?
> > -- 
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