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Monday, February 25, 2002Vulnerability Reporting Standard In The Works
Efforts to develop an RFC meet with predictable conflicts.
Group wants bug alerts under control. Software makers and security companies are huddling to set up a group that that will lay down guidelines for bug alerts. The leader of the pack? Microsoft, of course. [ZDNet Tech News]
For His Next Trick...
Tim Berners-Lee has already developed the web and XML - now he's working on giving the net a brain of its own.
The Next Web. By 2005, Tim Berners-Lee aims to replace the World Wide Web with the Semantic Web, which will understand human language [Business Week: Technology]
Closing The Barn Door?
Interesting...and probably useful...applications. A possible risk is that organizations will simply look to applications like this to spot problems, rather than trying to fix the poor security in the first place.
Hackers Sneak Through Open Doors In Applications. Businesses turn to new class of software to block intruders [TechWeb]