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ISC confirms BIND vulnerabilities
News The Internet Software Consortium (ISC), the group responsible for maintaining the software, released a new version of BIND on Monday, with their Web site billing it as a maintenance release. However, on Wednesday the site had been updated, saying...
[March 5, 2003, 10:52]
Video Analytics Used to Catch Thief at ISC West 2008 - Security Show
White Papers After the first day of presenting at one of the largest security shows in North America, ISC West in Las Vegas, the VP of Sales with IntelliView Technologies left his phone at the company booth on the trade show floor.
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
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]
Spam servers in China named and shamed
News The Internet Society of China (ISC) has published the IP addresses of over one hundred servers that it says are being used to send unsolicited junk mail across the Internet. This is the sixth time that the ISC has publicly identified alleged spam...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
US group takes open source fight abroad
News US-based lobby group the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is escalating its efforts to stymie the progress of legislation promoting the use of open-source software in government departments in Australia.
[July 16, 2003, 9:49]
No consensus on cost of security
News When it comes to IT security, companies put products before people according to the latest research from security training company (ISC)² which shows that products and services eat up more money than spending on personnel.
[December 8, 2005, 14:15]
Security scholarships up for grabs
Blog Security training organisation (ISC)2 has announced that it has eight scholarships to give to post-grads involved in information security research. One-year scholarships of up to £6,250 each will be awarded to up to eight full-time post-graduate...
[February 20, 2008, 16:34]
MPLS VPN Service Requests
White Papers The focus of IP Solution Center (ISC) is the service provided for a customer on the link between a customer CE and a provider PE. With the service request model, the ISC can capture the specified VPN service provisioning request, analyze the...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
IBM Transforms Its Supply Chain to Drive Growth
White Papers In 2002, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano centralized all of IBM's internal supply chain functions, from engineering to customer service, under the new Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) unit. ISC's mission? After reviewing ISC's transformation efforts in the past...
[April 26, 2005, 3:00]
High-risk internet server exploit goes wild
News The exploit targets a vulnerability in Bind 9, the most widely used DNS server standard, warned the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) on Tuesday. ISC is the organisation that supports Bind. The exploit, which a hacker could use to launch an attack...
[July 29, 2009, 17:16]
Microsoft issues DNS poisoning advisory
News The security update was triggered by a report from the Internet Storm Center (ISC) that it had received notices of a number of DNS cache poisoning attacks. In early March, ISC first warned of DNS cache poisoning attacks that were redirecting users...
[April 8, 2005, 9:55]
Watchdog warns Net policing will go unchecked
News The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) -- Britain's intelligence services watchdog -- has raised concern that the Act's Regulatory Tribunal, created to provide checks against abuses of this power, will be relatively toothless.
[April 3, 2001, 15:24]
Patch slip-up raises security questions
News The ISC's flub is the latest incident to call into question whether software companies, security researchers, and open-source development groups can be relied on to responsibly handle the vulnerabilities found in the software that forms the...
[November 21, 2002, 13:43]
Open source battle heats up over Oregon bill
News It's classic preference legislation that isn't needed," Mike Wendy, policy counsel for the ISC, said. We would prefer not to see a bill," the ISC's Wendy said. Although the bill is in a nascent stage, it's quickly drawn the ire of companies...
[April 10, 2003, 7:52]
'Default' open-source licensing plans under fire
News Essentially, if this goes ahead, it will force public-sector bodies into using software that is not appropriate for them," said the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), in a statement. The ISC is an initiative of industry association CompTIA...
[March 11, 2004, 15:40]
Certifications are essential for all IT security staffers
News IT pros seeking security certifications should start their search by looking at the programs offered by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium,--(ISC)2. I like the fact that (ISC)2 requires experience for the...
[March 21, 2003, 11:24]
Attack code raises risk for Windows
News Networks obliging to basic secure perimeter design would only allow port 53 UDP/TCP to the authoritative DNS servers, and definitely not the additional RPC ports required for exploitation," a SANS ISC staffer wrote on the organisation's blog on...
[April 17, 2007, 10:27]
Security is moving beyond the perimeter
Blog I was reading some of the early results from our 2008 (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study recently and was quite interested to see that more companies are deploying cryptography and storage security.
[April 17, 2008, 14:48]
Invest now - payback later
Blog I was in san Francisco last month for the 20th Anniversary celebration of (ISC)2’s formation. John Colley, CISSP, Managing Director, (ISC)2 EMEA While there I was fortunate enough to have dinner in one of the city’s many excellent Chinese restaurants.
[May 5, 2009, 16:07]
'Default' open-source licensing plans under fire
Talkback I love the ISC flacks' comments. I wonder why they even care so much about what licence government software is released under. And can somebody explain to me the logic behind how releasing software under a FOSS licence implies that this 'will force...
[March 13, 2004, 21:26]
