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Gov't.-published List of Computer Security Holes

Posted by timothy on from the benefitting-the-commonwealth dept.

Arngautr writes "ScienceDaily.com reports that The U.S. government has created a 'comprehensive database of computer vulnerabilities,' The National Vulnerability Database. Updated daily, it currently includes almost 12,000 vulnerabilities. Should be a boon to IT professionals and script kiddies alike."

2 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Next step... by Ingolfke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My guess is that they missed some bugs :/

    The list is no doubt not absolutely complete... but you could easily attribute the difference in the # of vulnerabilities between Windows and Linux to the the fact that Linux is Open Source, and therefore more people are participating in the debugging process. Or it could be that Windows really does have fewer vulnerabilities than Windows. Of course that doesn't mean that the vulnerabilities that it does have are less impactful than those on Linux.

  2. What, no RSS Feed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My compliments to the U.S. Government for having the database, and having it be populated with current information.

    However, the whole thing is a bit 2002 in approach. Please add an RSS feed so that I can scan what's changed since I last looked at it.

    Yours,
    Sysadmin