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Feds, industry battle the biggest network bug (The Register)
- From: Terence McCarthy <saki.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:34:56 +0000
- Message-id: <20020612193456.47dd06ea.saki.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
This story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25693.html) talks about the ASN.1 problems. To a neophyte of the protocols etc., of the internet it seems worrying: to a computer user the following is frightening:
"So severe are the potential ramifications of widespread ASN.1 security holes, that President Bush was personally briefed on the matter, according to cyber security czar Richard Clarke, speaking at a meeting of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) last March."
Then:
"With that mandate, Howard Schmidt, FORMER MICROSOFT SECURITY CHIEF (my caps) and newly-appointed vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, created a full-time "Cyber Interagency Working Group" in February to examine the government's vulnerability to ASN.1 implementation holes."
Sleep well in your beds!
Terence
"So severe are the potential ramifications of widespread ASN.1 security holes, that President Bush was personally briefed on the matter, according to cyber security czar Richard Clarke, speaking at a meeting of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) last March."
Then:
"With that mandate, Howard Schmidt, FORMER MICROSOFT SECURITY CHIEF (my caps) and newly-appointed vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, created a full-time "Cyber Interagency Working Group" in February to examine the government's vulnerability to ASN.1 implementation holes."
Sleep well in your beds!
Terence
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