Month: January 2010
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Microsoft, Aurora and Something About Forest and Trees?
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Perhaps it is the fine tequila this evening, but I really don’t get how our industry can latch on to the recent ‘Aurora’ incident and try to take Microsoft to task about it. The amount of news on this has been overwhelming, and I will try to…
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Putting OSVDB to work for Nessus Vulnerability Management
[This was originally published on the Tenable blog.] A customer recently asked us to provide a count of patches issued in 2009 for various Unix and Linux-based operating systems. To honor their request, we turned to OSVDB, the Open Source Vulnerability Database. OSVDB covers over 60,000 vulnerabilities, spans over 26,000 products and has a powerful search…