LWN has an interesting article CVE woes and alternatives about how hard it is to get a CVE number for a vulnerability. The general thrust is that some researchers have found it too hard and so simply don't bother.
There were some suggestions about a new system that makes it …
It's Thursday the 14th of January 2016, and it's now 25 days after I first heard about the Juniper backdoor (I heard about it on Monday the 21st of December 2015) and I still haven't patched it yet. We don't use the VPN and have never had SSH open to …
It's time for me to don my grumpy old man pants and have a whinge about how the attention of the main stream media is like a kitten with glittery bauble. Running all over the place focusing on the flashy and the new instead of focusing on the real issues …
Estimating the security of software is something that most systems administrators do instinctively, whether consciously or subconsciously. I have heard people say things like "Don't use WordPress it's always getting hacked", "Linux is more secure than Windows"1 or "Macs don't get viruses"2. All of these are estimates about …
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