full-disclosure - Re: darpa to automatically patch flaws

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CAH8yC8mw_LnNbDaowcn8ghRXgdEKph7j9biSk9LZgifKVVoz_w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:27:23 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@...iltrated.net>
Cc: Full Disclosure List <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: darpa to automatically patch flaws

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:03 AM, J. Oquendo <sil@...iltrated.net> wrote:
> ...
> 3) System would have to EXPLOIT vuln to fix it
Like the worm wars back in the early 2000s? Nachia patching for
Blaster? http://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2003/08/va_nachi.aspx

I thought it was kind of the Nachia folks to patch vulnerable
workstations and servers since SysAdmins were doing such a poor job.

Jeff

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/