Tag: Vulnerability Fujiwhara
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Vendors sure like to wave the “coordination” flag… (revisiting the ‘perfect storm’)
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] I’ve written about coordinated disclosure and the debate around it many times in the past. I like to think that I do so in a way that is above and beyond the usual old debate. This is another blog dedicated to an aspect of “coordinated” disclosure that…
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It’s patch xxxday!
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] A while back, Microsoft announced they were moving to release patches on the second Tuesday of each month, lovingly called Patch Tuesday. Soon after, Oracle announced that they too would be moving to scheduled releases of patches on the Tuesday closest to the 15th day of January,…
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The Perfect Patch Storm
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Steven Christey of CVE recently commented on the fact that Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Sun and HP all released multi-issue advisories on the same day (Feb 13). My first reaction was to come up with an amusing graphic depicting this perfect storm. Due to not having any graphic…