[HIB]New vulnerability disclosure deadline puts pressure on tardy software vendors

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Looking to put pressure on software vendors that 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.TippingPoint, a program that purchases the rights to vulnerability information in exchange for exclusivity to broker fixes with affected vendors, says the new six-month deadline will apply to all currently outstanding issues.

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