Tag: Will Dormann

  • New libssh Vulnerability – No Logo But Plenty Of Attention

    [This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com.] Earlier this week, Andreas Schneider announced the release of a new version of libssh, covering “an important security” that addressed “an authentication bypass vulnerability in the server code”. Pretty quickly we saw several news articles published that covered this issue, as well as third-party blogs that added commentary on the technical side of the vulnerability. Since we were following the […]

  • 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 […]