Ever wonder who you are buying those zero day exploits from?

Juergen Marester, a 24-year-old French network consultant, needed seed capital to start his own computer-security company. So he turned to his off-hours hobby — black-hat hacking — and did what a growing number of hackers are doing: selling “0days” (pronounced “oh-days” or “zero days,” it generally refers to unknown, or zero-hour, software threats). These are recipes and code for penetrating the software run by governments, corporations, and private citizens. When properly deployed, 0days can result in minor disruptions such as a Web site’s temporary paralysis. At their extreme, they grant an attacker total control over a network. (Fast Company)

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