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CERT To Disclose Software Flaws
News The CERT Coordination Centre, which tracks current security threats and publishes advisories to the public, will continue its policy of not publishing any code for exploiting flaws. The industry "is moving away from polar extremes", said Shawn...
[October 9, 2000, 8:38]
Security Clearinghouse Under The Gun
News Jeffrey Carpenter, manager of the CERT Coordination Center, said that the group was surprised by Litchfield's email. In an email released to a public security mailing list this week, a vulnerability research company took to task the nonprofit...
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
MSBlast Spawns Variants As Users Race To Patch
News The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Centre, a clearinghouse for information on Internet threats, said as many as 1.4 million Internet addresses seemed to be the home of computers the worm -- or an earlier attack program on...
[August 14, 2003, 8:45]
Security Warning Too Quick For Comfort?
News He added that if the security company had contacted the Apache Foundation or the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Centre -- a clearinghouse for information about vulnerabilities -- it would have learned that the open-source...
[June 18, 2002, 9:21]
Worm's Growth Contained As Deadline Looms
News The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Centre, a clearinghouse for information on Internet threats, continued to see about the same number of reports on Thursday as the previous day.
[August 15, 2003, 8:50]
CERT: Security Flaw Reports Increasing
News Larry Rogers, a senior member of the technical staff at the US-based CERT Coordination Centre, told ZDNet Australia that for the 2001 calendar year, there were 2437 vulnerabilities reported. The CERT Coordination Centre, which studies Internet...
[July 16, 2002, 14:18]
Hackers Put Net Security Watchdog Out Of Action
News Our connection to the Internet has been largely saturated by this activity," Ian Finlay, an Internet security analyst for the CERT Coordination Center, said in a recorded statement. The www.cert.org Web site may be unavailable until the attack...
[May 24, 2001, 9:30]
Internet Attacks On The Rise
News The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center, the group that administers the myriad CERTs around the United States, counted nearly 35,000 attacks and probes in the first nine months of this year.
[October 16, 2001, 8:50]
CERT Casts Doubt On Security Find
News The CERT Coordination Center's opinion on the matter unravels more than two months of speculation on whether a flaw existed and what its effects could be. The developers contacted Microsoft and the CERT Coordination Center to report the flaw.
[January 23, 2004, 9:10]
CIH Is A Dodo
News CERT's Pollak warned that Version 1.3 is the one to watch. The point about it is that this is a known virus," said CERT's Pollak. We've seen nothing out of the ordinary," said Bill Pollak, spokesman for the Computer Emergency Response Team...
[May 27, 1999, 8:51]
New Security Risk From Trojan Horses
News CERT Coordination Centre, run by Carnegie Mellon University in the US, is warning that home PCs running Windows are being placed doubly at risk by an emerging class of malicious program that works with well-known invasive tools like SubSeven.
[July 9, 2001, 13:41]
Distributed Attack Threat Looms On The Horizon
News The combination of widespread, automated exploitation of two common vulnerabilities and an associated increase in distributed denial of service tool installation poses a significant threat to Internet sites and the Internet infrastructure," reads...
[September 18, 2000, 9:52]
Sendmail Breached By New Flaw
News US-based vulnerability coordination centre CERT claimed most companies are likely to be affected by the new glitch. Most medium-sized to large organisations are likely to have at least one vulnerable Sendmail server," CERT said in an advisory.
[March 31, 2003, 8:30]
CIH Computer Virus Toll Tops 540,000
News According to the CERT Coordination Centre at Carnegie Mellon University, a total of 195 organisations have reported problems involving 2,023 computers. The majority of reports have been from home computer users and educational institutions, said...
[April 28, 1999, 9:34]
NASA Site Blocks Out Brazil
News Blocking traffic from an entire network or country isn't as extreme a measure as it may sound, said Mark Zajicek, daily operations team leader at the CERT Coordination Center. The JPL, a NASA centre managed by the California Institute of Technology...
[March 16, 2000, 10:54]
Hack Attacks On Home PCs Increase
News The last three months have seen a significant rise in so-called intruder attacks directed at home users, according to the latest quarterly report from the US-based CERT Coordination Centre. According to CERT, home users are particularly vulnerable...
[August 29, 2001, 17:22]
Flaw Found In Common Internet Standard
News The problem, said Jeffrey S Havrilla, Internet security analyst for the CERT Coordination Centre, a computer security organization based at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, is that the Internet's fundamental data control mechanism known as...
[May 4, 2001, 9:44]
Oracle Warns On 'high Risk' Flaw
News The problem, further detailed at Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Centre, is due to flaws in different implementations of security protocols, namely Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), used within Oracle's...
[December 10, 2003, 9:10]
VPNs At Risk From Security Glitch
News The severity of the problems varies by software vendor, according to an advisory issued jointly by the British National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) and the Finnish CERT. A flaw in a key Internet security protocol used by...
[November 15, 2005, 9:00]
Flaw Detected In Check Point Security
News The CERT Coordination Centre has also issued an advisory about the flaw, warning that, because an attacker would be able to pass traffic through the firewall or VPN gateway, software could be planted to be used later in a DoS attack.
[July 11, 2001, 11:07]
