From DarkReading (Kelly Jackson Higgins)
The cleanup cost for fixing a bug in a homegrown Web application ranges anywhere from $400 to $4,000 to repair, depending on the vulnerability and the way it’s fixed.
Security experts traditionally have been hesitant to calculate the actual cost associated with bug fixes because there are so many variables, including the severity of the vulnerability, differences in man-hour rates, and the makeup of the actual fix. Read the full story [darkreading.com]
From DarkReading (Kelly Jackson Higgins)
The cleanup cost for fixing a bug in a homegrown Web application ranges anywhere from $400 to $4,000 to repair, depending on the vulnerability and the way it’s fixed.
Security experts traditionally have been hesitant to calculate the actual cost associated with bug fixes because there are so many variables, including the severity of the vulnerability, differences in man-hour rates, and the makeup of the actual fix. Read the full story [darkreading.com]
The bugs rate 10 out of 10 on the vulnerability-severity scale, thanks to the ease of exploitation.
As just one symptom, 83 percent of the Top 30 U.S. retailers have vulnerabilities which pose an “imminent” cyber-threat, including Amazon, Costco, Kroger and Walmart.
Three critical security bugs allow for easy privilege escalation to an administrator role.
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