Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.
They're Russian puppets, both things are true.
I suspect that the administration that asked their people to stop focusing on Russia in the cyber space is deliberately trying to weaken our security posture in relation to said country. This confirms it.
us capitalism has nowhere else to expand. its eating itself now.
I've been having this feeling for a while now, and not just with the US
this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US
You got that right.
mitre also has some prime real estate adjacent to mclean metro at tysons east. probably enough for a golf course/country club if you razed everything and took the adjacent park lands.
I'm half-sure Trump put price tags on everything in the WH and every time you see a stupid thing in US foreign policy (local is guided by P25), you may hear Donald's OF donation bell ring.
My money is on the second one, but who knows...
On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/'career path'...
It shouldn't surpris too much given Mike Pondsmith's general record of clairvoyance that NetWatch is a European Corp.
And, no, "Vos videmus" totally isn't a creepy motto. Based out of London, one could almost think that it's the London CCTV system turned sentient AI.
All that has to happen for a 'Blackwall' analagous scenario is enough undersea cables get cut/sabotaged.
Then you're looking at a much more localized internet, where actually having a reliable or high bandwidth connection to a very far away place requires you to either have an insane jerry rigged solution, or a lot of money to pay for an increasing valuable, still existing intercontinental line.
Of course, we very much could also end up with a more intentionally constructed type of widespread firewalling as well... they already exist.
China's great firewall, tons of other countries that have internet and/or social media killswitches...
... And we are already seeing massive bandwidth from corpo AI scrapers trying to harvest data to train their AIs leading to people making new ways to detect, block, and or trap them in infinite loops, to save their own servers from going down.
You say cyberpunk dystopia… I say 1776.
... As soon as you find documents from the founding fathers addressing best practices and policies regarding cybersecurity, let me know.
Adds cybersecurity to resume** Finally gets hired..
Good luck, I've been trying for 2 months and I was a senior engineer.
Sorry to hear that, i wish you positive luck in the near future!
My sense is orgs are correcting now from the over-hiring they did a few years ago. Our InfoSec department blew up over the last 5 years as did many corporations but the problem is in the boom you had, for lack of a better way to put it, a lot of morons snuck in under the auspices of "I took a course I'm a security engineer!"
Now corporations are moving on to risk mitigation which is a completely different skillset.
CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws
Just in case
Thank you. I've never heard this acronym before, myself.
This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.
I listen to SN while at work. I may take next Tuesday night off and grab a big bag of popcorn.
Yeah, I wish I could see Steve's reaction as he learned it
Well, this way the apartheidist will never see the bugs he's introduced into any of the systems he's broken.
The EU needs to start planning now (well, really, needed to start planning in 2016) to replace every critical system that relies in any way on the US government.
If you think of money invested vs. return on government programs like this, the benefit is incredible. That it's being discontinued is obvious proof that the US is run by the agents of its own destruction and cannot be relied upon in any way: not as a supplier of military equipment, or information technology, or economic codependency.
Can't wait until I don't have to upgrade software anymore!
Imagine being one of the tech billionaires who Trump bankrolled and he does this- basically handing out wrenches for people to throw.
For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it's a pretty good target for the US Republican party.
The Age of Fire is ending in America. The President is a Hollow working for Darkstalker Kaathe.
We shouldn't all have to deal with this alone
get well soon, uncle sam
Best to take it and its 2 brothers out of their missery
Yes, this will end well. I wonder how the org will evolve from this or will another country pick it up... Will be interesting to see.
Literally the rest of world against these fuckers soon.
2017: covfefe
2025: cvefefe
Be funny if someone started a gofundme.
Why would anybody donate and put trust into a very important service that's ran in an unreliable country?
The rest of the world will probably just take over and leave the US in the dark about useful CVEs that could be used in their cyber ops.
MAGA supporter: yup! Waste and fraud to me.
idiots!
Right before Windows 10 loses security updates too, what a coincidence. Wonder what the Russians are working on...
It’s not Uncle Sam, or the USA shutting this down. It’s the Republican Administration. They’ve been empowered by the Republican led Congress to shut down anything it doesn’t like, understand, or benefit from.
Oh crap
We need a alterntive that doesn't rely on the U.S.A it can be from any country
