http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2008/12/18/cyber-alert-system-failure en-us 40 My God, It's Full of Source! <p>I got a National Cyber Alert System <a href="http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-352A.html">alert</a> today about the Microsoft Internet Explorer security vulnerability, now that Microsoft has a patch out. The trouble is, everybody has known about this since last week, and anybody finding out about it today is already hopelessly in trouble.</p> <p>There's nothing wrong with a notification, "hey, you should ensure this patch is applied," but that's not the purported purpose of the Cyber Alert System.</p> <p>Thank goodness for the <a href="http://isc.sans.org">ISC</a> which is group of volunteers doing a much better job than the large government bureaucracy charged with the task.</p> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:28:00 -0500 urn:uuid:64890729-7614-49df-8ed4-faafe1e109e9 Bill McGonigle http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2008/12/18/cyber-alert-system-failure Windows Politics Security http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/trackback/4800