Re: [SC-L] Disclosure: vulnerability pimps? or super heroes?

2007-03-07 Thread Steven M. Christey
Based on my general impressions in day-to-day operations for CVE (around 150 new vulns a week on average), maybe 40-60% of disclosures happen without any apparent attempt at vendor coordination, another 10-20% with a communication breakdown (including "they didn't answer in 2 days"), and the rest

[SC-L] IEEE Workshop: Web 2.0 Security & Privacy

2007-03-07 Thread Larry Koved
This is a workshop that may be of interest to subscribers of this mailing list. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2007/cfp-W2SP.html Workshop Call for Position Papers W2SP 2007: Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2007 Sponsored by the IEEE

[SC-L] Nokia Lets Users Update Phone Software Directly (Phone Scoop)

2007-03-07 Thread Kenneth Van Wyk
SC-L, Ok, so we all have various opinions about security patching practices in software -- mostly bad, I'm confident. But, in today's environment, patching still seems to be a necessary evil. But for the most part, mobile devices have been pretty much left out in the code. That's start