by n3td3v September 27, 2008 5:11 AM PDT Once a month stops people getting confused, and allows people to organize patch management better.
You know when the patches are due to be released, so you don't miss any and get hacked when a hacker reverse engineers the patch. If you just release patches on random days, folks might get caught off guard and miss patching as quickly as they might want. Also, third party patches are the most danergous patches, so its better to know when the genuine patch is coming out. I never agreed with the whole ZERT thing, its just encouraging the bad guys to release third party patches which could be malware pretending to be a patch. Never accept third party patches, even if they are from ZERT, it sets a bad precedence. http://news.cnet.com/8601-13554_3-10052873.html?communityId=2032&targetCommunityId=2032&blogId=33&tag=mncol;tback#5009236 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
