Month: November 2017
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John Thomas Draper: Setting the Record Straight re: Blue Box
The tl;dr cliffnotes: John Draper was not the inventor of the Blue Box. (Nor did he figure out the Captain Crunch whistle could be used for phreaking.) In April of 2015, several years after Phil Lapsley published “Exploding the Phone” giving a detailed history of the early days of phreaking, I wrote a blog largely…
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Thoughts about CNNVD vs. US NVD
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com in the 2017 Q3 Vulnerability QuickView report.] In October, Bill Ladd of Recorded Future released a study comparing CVE and the U.S. NationalVulnerability Database (NVD) with China’s National Vulnerability Database (CNNVD). This report, titled“The Dragon Is Winning: U.S. Lags Behind Chinese Vulnerability Reporting” was covered by John Leyden inThe…