/me tries to remember who has the most secure operating system in the world.
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > The Black Hat security conference had a last-minute cancellation of a > presentation by a group of researchers scheduled to reveal a dangerous > software > vulnerability. Organizers promoted a talk that would be on the scale of the > flaw in > the DNS (Domain Name System) highlighted by a security researcher at Black > Hats U.S. conference in July 2008. > > The flaw is so sensitive that even revealing the vendor affected could > potentially > cause hackers to start poking around with applications or operating systems > to try > to figure it out, said Black Hats CEO. The unnamed vendor has told the > researchers that it could have a patch ready in a month or so, but it could > take as > long as four months. > > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163253/black_hat_supertalk_halted > _due_to_vendor_concerns.html > > OK, we have a really, really, serious bug, and it's going to take up to four > months > to get a patch out. Any bets on the vendor? :-) > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know > nothing. - Seneca > http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm > http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
