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CERT to disclose software flaws
News It may herald the end of a fight that has inflamed the security community for more than a decade: the Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, has endorsed a policy of open flaws in software that could affect security.
[October 9, 2000, 8:38]
CERT warns on Sun server flaw
News Users of Sun's RaQ 4 Server appliance have been warned in the latest CERT advisory of a serious vulnerability affecting the units. A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Sun Cobalt RaQ 4 Server Appliances.may allow remote...
[December 13, 2002, 9:50]
CERT warns of key ISC vulnerability
News CERT has warned of a serious security vulnerability in ISC's DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) software, which is shipped with multiple operating systems including popular Linux and BSD variants.
[January 16, 2003, 8:48]
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]
CERT casts doubt on security find
News However, security researchers at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center downplayed the issue, saying that the program simply inundates a network with so much data that computers have problems functioning correctly.
[January 23, 2004, 9:10]
Hackers strike at CERT tracking site
News We are working with our service providers to resolve this problem," Bill Pollak, public relations coordinator for the CERT Coordination Center, said in a statement. The CERT Coordination Center would not identify which type matched the attack it...
[December 6, 2001, 8:53]
Nuts and bolts of Novell's updated CNE cert
News But before you spend your hard-earned money for training and testing, you should consider whether this certification is for you, what effect the changes have had on the cert and its exams, and where Novell's future cert tracks may lead you.
[October 17, 2003, 12:50]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
News Open source experts have hit back at a study published by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows in 2005, labelling the report misleading and confusing.
[January 6, 2006, 13:45]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback I would like to comment on misleading tems used in this article. Please use the term Linux only in cojunction with the kernel of the OS. If you talk about the whole OS (including other programs required to make the system usable) use the term GNU...
[January 9, 2006, 7:31]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "Windows alone accounted for more than 25% of all computer security vulnerabilities found among the more than 100 operating systems available in the previous year," would be another way of writing the headline or would Big Bill pull the...
[January 10, 2006, 14:29]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "The two figures are not representative of today's two major operating system platforms. One figure represents the vulnerabilities found in Windows operating systems: XP, NT, 98, and so on. The other represents a total figure not just for Solaris...
[January 6, 2006, 23:03]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "Which two major OS platforms would those be? Last I checked, Mac OS X had at least twice the share of all *nix put together. Unless you wanna count it as another *nix. Counting is hard. Mac OS X was lumped in with the other Unix-type OSs, so...
[January 8, 2006, 14:47]
US-CERT warns of SAP vulnerability
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warned in an advisory, updated on Monday, that, if a user were fooled into viewing a specially crafted HTML document, an external attacker might be able to gain control of their system, with their...
[November 11, 2008, 11:42]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback With the researchers focus explained, and considering that all Linux softwares have direct counterparts (with same codebase even) on Windows, it somewhat makes sense: since all users and all apps have admin rights by default on a Windows system...
[February 23, 2006, 16:03]
Cisco Cert Guide Chapter: SAFE IP Telephony Design
White Papers Excerpted from Cisco Press' CCSP CSI Exam Certification Guide, 2nd Edition, this free sample chapter introduces the SAFE network design, which Cisco Systems developed to address customer concerns about the security of IP telephony.
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback I couldn't find those figures you mentioned, just these: http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/ I thoroughly searched the CERT site, no such documentation. All windows bar 2. The screaming, whimpering, maleducated, troll - serf "smithy" makes a total...
[January 31, 2004, 17:52]
BlackBerry PhoneSnoop app can spy on calls
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-Cert, warned BlackBerry users on Tuesday about a new program called PhoneSnoop that allows someone to remotely eavesdrop on phone conversations. The PhoneSnoop application must be installed on the phone...
[October 28, 2009, 7:21]
Microsoft IE bug leaves users vulnerable to phishing
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), the net security watchdog, released a security alert on Friday warning of a flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer which allows attackers to run programs on a user's computer.
[June 14, 2004, 13:05]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback Go to CERT and check their figures. According to CERT, Linux has had up to 3 times as many security break ins as Windows 2003. "Bascule : "Less secure? One flaw in 7 years" Wrong again. Bascule was clearly referring to OpenBSD, not Linux.
[March 24, 2005, 5:08]
