Re: what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

[Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/28/2011 03:13 AM, Bennett Haselton wrote:
> Roughly what percent of the time is there such an unpatched exploit in the
> wild, so that the machine can be hacked by someone keeping up with the
> exploits?  5%?  50%?  95%?

there is no way to tell, and there is no metric to work against unless
there is some source that can identify exactly when and how a specific
exploit was discovered ( but then again, many exploits are not reported
by the people who find them, they just abuse those exploits till such
time as they can )

- KB
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