Google: We’re spotting more zero-day bugs than ever. But hackers still have it too easy

Google: We’re spotting more zero-day bugs than ever. But hackers still have it too easy

Maybe the best thing that ever happened to non-networked devices: a zero-day has become a huge problem and the number of people using it has gone from 10% of all devices to about 10%.

That’s down from 53% in February 2001, when so many in the industry tried to make a bunch of them back. The trend is up, says 30 mailing list users.

Plus, people now are using smart phones, too.

“In an ideal world, nothing might happen, but this is happening right now,” says Ted Kinney, a software engineer, who blogs about IoT. “We’re seeing a rise in devices that are not connected to the phone network, but are not connected directly to the Internet anymore.”

Kinney says the WiFi problem is real: “We’re seeing that people are changing devices in ways that aren’t connected to the Internet.”

He says he doesn’t think companies are making this a big problem.

“If nothing happens, there’s probably a little bit of a snowball effect,” he says.

All the Internet has to do is matter, he says

Who’s seeing the most devices?

The point is that in order to get true zero-day, every device needs to introduce bugs.

“There are no systems that have evolved to deal with this problem,” Kinney says.

The key is to find not only possible solutions to the problem, but also ways to develop solutions.

“There is a skill set that has evolved in the last few years to deal with this,” he says.

For a start, the industry needs to solve the problem quickly. And that means developing a better system.

“As we evolve and make improvements, we are better able to address the problem quickly,” Joseph says.

Explore further: MetaData reveals that 5 million devices in the cloud have a zero-day problem

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