On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:43PM -0600, Alfred Huger wrote: > In brief they are now unloading limited details to the public about > vulnerabilities they have notified vendors about. I'm not surprised - three years ago, I said that would happen[1], although I was expecting tighter cooperation between producers of security holes (software vendors) and scanners. When antivirus publishers have been accused of _secretely_ funding the developement of new virii, they have been slammed by everyone. Oddly, scanning for unknown vulnerabilities seems to be something worth to brag about. -- Renaud [1] http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199907/0014.html -- Renaud Deraison The Nessus Project http://www.nessus.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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