Month: May 2005

  • 600 Security Vulnerabilities in Q1 2005

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] http://www.betanews.com/article/600_Security_Vulnerabilities_in_Q1_2005/1115067858 600 Security Vulnerabilities in Q1 2005By Nate Mook, BetaNewsMay 2, 2005, 5:04 PM According to a study published Monday by the SANS Institute, more than 600 new security vulnerabilities cropped up in the first three months of 2005. Although Microsoft leads the top 20 most critical…

  • Ginger & Photon

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Recently at the CanSec West conference, Window Snyder from Microsoft gave a talk about Windows XP SP2 security internals. Looking past a bulk of the talk, one portion of it stuck out in the minds of many vulnerability researchers. Unfortunately, the press has only given it a…

  • Everything is Vulnerable

    Jake Kouns and I gave a talk that covered vulnerability databases: inherent problems, important issues, major players, research & rankings, and the future. The presentation was at CanSecWest 2005 in Vancouver.