ZERT: aims to stop zero-day exploits by making patches available sooner
As reported by techrepublic on 30th October 2006:
Rather than waiting until "official" vendor patches become available, a new online organization—the Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT)—aims to respond to release reliable non-vendor "emergency" patches for exploits as soon as they appear to pose a serious risk of exploitation. Of special interest to many users may be the ZProtector framework for patching zero-day vulnerabilities for Windows—beginning with Windows 95! As you probably know, this range includes a number of platforms no longer supported by Microsoft.
Although ZERT works with a number of security tool vendors, the organization has no direct affiliation with any particular vendor. To see how ZERT approaches emergency patching of zero-day threats as compared to the official Microsoft patches, check out this ZERT analysis PDF document of the recently patched CVE-2006-4868 vulnerability.
Written by pinolobu on November 13th, 2006 with
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