http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2196.html Creation of HERT HERT - January 10th 1999, 09:12 EST HERT stands for Hacker Emergency Response Team and is an international non-profit organization based in France. Exactly like CERT, our US counterpart, our first goal is to provide accurate information about computer security vulnerabilities, provide incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attacks, publish security alerts and find new vulnerabilities. Our next goal is to represent concerned computer users and organizations as an advocacy league. Why HERT is a better alternative to CERT? National Computer Security Center, a sub-branch of the National Security Agency initiated the creation of the Computer Emergency Response Team and was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA). A majority of people think CERT is doing a brilliant job, but when you examine CERT more closely, one could believe CERT is a bit corrupted. Just take a look at the CERT statistics, since 1995, for 1027 vulnerabilities reported, they have published only 55 advisories bulletins. Is this a joke, did they count duplicate vulnerability reports? Was there 1000 cert initiated vendor advisories? >From an organization directed by US Military Intelligence, you must assume the worst especially when they brag about their Information Superiority. We decided to create HERT, when system administrators of highly sensitive US networks informed us that they were supplied with official vendor patches months before public announcement were made by vendors, CERT or full-disclosure mailing lists like Bugtraq. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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