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CERTŪ Advisory CA-2001-21 Buffer Overflow In Telnetd
White Papers An exploit for this vulnerability has been publicly released; internal testing at CERT/CC confirms this exploit works against at least one target system. The telnetd program is a server for the Telnet remote virtual terminal protocol.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
CERTŪ Incident Note IN-2001-09 / Code Red II: Another Worm Exploiting Buffer Overflow In IIS Indexing ServiceDLL
White Papers The CERT/CC has received reports of new self-propagating malicious code exploiting the vulnerability described in CA-2001-13 Buffer Overflow in IIS Indexing Service DLL. These reports indicate that the worm has already affected thousands of systems.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
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]
CERTŪ Advisory CA-2000-02 Malicious HTML Tags Embedded In Client Web Requests
White Papers This advisory is being published jointly by the CERT Coordination Center, DoD-CERT, the DoD Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND), the Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC), and the National Infrastructure...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
CERTŪ Advisory CA-2001-19: Code Red Worm Exploiting Buffer Overflow In IIS Indexing Service DLL
White Papers The CERT/CC has received reports of new self-propagating malicious code that exploits IIS-enabled systems susceptible to the vulnerability described in CERT advisory CA-2001-13 Buffer Overflow In IIS Indexing Service DLL.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
CERTŪ Advisory CA-2001-11 Sadmind/IIS Worm
White Papers The CERT/CC has received reports of a new piece of self-propagating malicious code (referred to here as the sadmind/IIS worm). The worm uses two well-known vulnerabilities to compromise systems and deface web pages.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
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]
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]
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]
PCT Cert Advantage - Windows 2000 Pro (70-210) Exam Prep
Downloads From the developer: ""PCT Cert Advantage for 70-210 prepares you for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (070-210) exam. We have features the others don't, including a heuristics-based performance-tracking algorithm that instantly pinpoints...
[December 24, 2002, 10:16]
Response To The CERT SNMP Advisory
White Papers The CERT Advisory CA-2002-03 titled "Multiple Vulnerabilities in Many Implementations of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)" states that vulnerabilities found in the SNMP (referring to v1) implementations of many vendors may allow...
[March 12, 2004, 23:04]
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 "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]
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 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]
