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Equifax discovered the hack on July 29, more than a month before this vulnerability was discovered.
by cpncrunch 9y ago
Equifax discovered the hack on July 29, more than a month before this vulnerability was discovered.
- ihattendorf 9y agoA month before this vulnerability was discovered by these specific security researchers.
- AdamJacobMuller 9y agoA month before it was _disclosed_ by these researchers. Given the magnitude of this hack, it is entirely possible they embargoed it for a while.
- lawnchair_larry 9y agoNo, the vulnerability was reported to the Struts project on July 17. https://lgtm.com/blog/apache_struts_CVE-2017-9805 https://lgtm.com/blog/apache_struts_CVE-2017-9805
- cpncrunch 9y agoI meant a month before it was reported.
- imron 9y agoSo little to no chance then that those executives who sold stock the other day didn't know about it then.