While the last-minute extension averts an immediate lapse in support, rival organizations are being stood up to supplant the global vulnerability system.
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In 1999, Dave Mann and Steve Christey, two researchers from the nonprofit R&D corporation MITRE, debuted a concept for security vulnerabilities that laid the groundwork for the…
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The Common Vulnerability Scoring System has a lot of critics, but experts say it’s still the best unified way to share the severity of cybersecurity flaws.