[Full-Disclosure] Getting the lead out of broken virus / worm email meta-reporting

The Central Scroutinizer scroutinizer at beeb.net
Tue Aug 3 19:19:57 BST 2004


> How fast is fast? The time it takes an av, spyware or firewall
> company to react to a real-time threat.   I think there is going
> to have to be a pooling of anti-virus, mail sweeping and firewall
> protection knowledge.   There should be a central policy that
> can be reported and distributed to the various vendors and
> clients that autoupdates the protecting software.  Simply a
> crisis-mail-alert with appropriate information for translation into a 
> protecting shield that updates all av, mail and firewall
> utilities.
>
> Has anyone written or read a spec. on standardizing worm, virus
> or other alerts with not just there's a'sploit, but a method of
> reporting the 'sploit or adware, malware in a way that the
> vendors and clients could instantly counter with a new filter or
> fix?

See :-

http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/
http://www.cve.mitre.org/

I agree there should be an open standard and common public libraries of 
exploits and fixes.

Aaron





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