Tag: Mark Dowd

  • That Vulnerability is “Theoretical”!

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] A few days ago, while writing a draft of a different blog, I made reference to and said “we’re well aware of the pitfalls around calling a vulnerability ‘theoretical’“! I wanted to link off to what I was referencing, a case where security researchers found a vulnerability…

  • Who’s to blame? The hazard of “0-day”.

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] This blog entry is probably worth many pages of ranting, examining and dissecting the anatomy of a 0-day panic and the resulting fallout. Since this tends to happen more often than some of us care to stomach, I’ll touch on the major points and be liberal in…