Tag: CERT

  • RIP CERT.org – You Will Be Missed

    [This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com.] On February 22, Will Dormann tweeted that the main CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) website (www.cert.org) had been shuttered. Upon checking ourselves we found the website now redirecting to the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, the parent group of CERT. As a 14-year veteran at CERT/CC, Dormann understandably had some feelings about the […]

  • For Sale: VDB

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Jason Bergen posted to Full-Disclosure trying to sell a “Security Vulnerability Database Company“. From that mail: The company maintains a database of all security vulnerabilities, and the database is updated on a daily basis. The company maybe of interest to organisations who are currently licensing a vulnerability […]

  • Cashing in on Vaporware

    “The CERT Coordination Center is a center of Internet security expertise“, and they have a new product to sell you. Only it isn’t really new – and it was never a stellar product to begin with. For years, CERT has been a federally funded group handling incident response, vulnerability analysis and published security alerts. They […]

  • CERT Rides the Short Bus

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] One of the resources Attrition.org provides is mirroring defaced web pages. One of the related services is running three mail lists revolving around defaced web pages. We offer three different mail lists to accommodate people wishing to stay abreast of the latest defacements: defaced – this list receives one […]