March kept us all very busy with the ongoing out-of-band Microsoft updates for Exchange Server and the printing BSODs, which plagued us since last Patch Tuesday. It looks like a standard release of updates from Microsoft next week, but before we get to patching vulnerabilities, I would like to focus on the need to discover and report on them.
I entered the software and security market back in the mid-1980s when the internet was growing rapidly and participating was like visiting uncharted territory. Ah yes, CompuServe, Netscape, Commodore VIC-20 – those were the days. There were few standards for interoperability and finding the right people to even discuss them was a challenge.
Those of us in the security industry saw the need to identify and share incident and vulnerability information, but unfortunately ‘security through obscurity’ was of ..
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