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Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure
From: Renaud Deraison <deraison () nessus org>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 01:16:06 +0200
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:05:43PM -0600, Alfred Huger wrote:
In brief they are now unloading limited details to the public about vulnerabilities they have notified vendors about.
I'm not surprised - three years ago, I said that would happen[1], although I was expecting tighter cooperation between producers of security holes (software vendors) and scanners. When antivirus publishers have been accused of _secretely_ funding the developement of new virii, they have been slammed by everyone. Oddly, scanning for unknown vulnerabilities seems to be something worth to brag about. -- Renaud [1] http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199907/0014.html -- Renaud Deraison The Nessus Project http://www.nessus.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure, (continued)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Alfred Huger (May 28)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Raju Mathur (May 28)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure R. DuFresne (May 29)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Alfred Huger (May 28)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Pierre Vandevenne (May 28)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Drew (May 28)
- RE: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Marc Maiffret (May 28)
- RE: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Deus, Attonbitus (May 28)
- RE: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Marc Maiffret (May 28)
- RE: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Ryan Russell (May 29)
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- RE: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Deus, Attonbitus (May 29)
- RE: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Marc Maiffret (May 28)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Brad Mills (May 29)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure David Litchfield (May 29)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure batz (May 29)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure Jon Bull (May 30)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure David Litchfield (May 30)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure hellNbak (May 30)
- Re: Scanners and unpublished vulnerabilities - Full Disclosure J Jacoby (May 31)