Observations on Software - Markets, Technology, and Companies
An End To Vulnerability Bickering?
Security Wire Digest - Thursday, February 21, 2002, Vol. 4 No. 14: "Possibly paving the way for a new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, an Internet-Draft on a "Responsible Disclosure Process" was released Wednesday for public review. If implemented as an IETF Best Current Practices, the draft could help to put an end to years of warring in the security community on the merits of full versus responsible vulnerabilityïFCAdisclosure"
Need a cheap PC?
If you've got to have a PC, might as well be an inexpensive one.
Checkout the OS-free PCs at walmart.com. Pirates' charter? [The Register]
Oh, that inquiry...
After first attempting to refute assertions it was the subject of a federal inquiry into finances, CA acknowledged that is is the subject of an investigation.
CA acknowledges 'preliminary inquiry' by SEC into finances. The company said today that it is the subject of a preliminary inquiry into its finances but that it hasn't been told the subject of the probe. [Computerworld]