The L0pht helped force vendors like Microsoft to change the way they address software security flaws. By raising the visibility of security problems, the group spurred companies to pay more attention to security. “They were the Led Zeppelin of gray hat hacking,” says Marcus Ranum, who is credited with creating the first commercial firewall product and is now CSO at Tenable Network Security. “They have changed the industry for the worse,” says one security analyst John Pescatore, a longtime Gartner analyst.”]
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