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Re:Yahoo Hacked by eli on Monday October 06, 2014 @12:37PM (#8416785)
I frankly don't believe you. I think you vastly overestimate how much you can sell a vulnerability for and vastly underestimate the morals of white hat hackers reporting bugs for a bounty.

There are close to zero companies that pay tens/hundreds of thousands for a bug, and yet clearly bounties are being paid and not 100% of bugs end up on the black market.

Re:Yahoo Hacked by tcheard on Monday October 06, 2014 @04:34PM (#8418125)
Microsoft will pay up to $100,000 plus $50,000 bonus for defense submissions (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn425049)

Facebook has paid $12,500 for one (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/02/security-researcher-discove...)

Google will pay up to $20,000 for one (http://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/#rewa...)

Forbes even posted an article a couple years ago on the market of zero day exploits and listed prices someone could get for zero day exploits with prices in the tens/hundreds of thousands. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppin...) It should be noted that they state in this article that the groups that will buy these exploits for these prices are generally western governments.

Re:Yahoo Hacked by otakucode on Monday October 06, 2014 @04:13PM (#8417991)
Mitnicks security company recently started a vulnerability marketplace. For vulnerabilities that meet the criteria (they have to be of a certain severity, not already known, etc), they are sold for a minimum of $100,000.