For timely vulnerability information, unofficial sources are a better bet

From over 12,500 disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), more than 75% were publicly reported online before they were published to the NIST’s centralized National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Recorded Future researchers have found. The data, taken from the beginning of 2016, showed that the median lag was seven days between a CVE being revealed to ultimately being published on the NIST’s NVD.

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