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Creation of HERT
HERT - January 10th 1999, 09:12 EST
HERT stands for Hacker Emergency Response Team and is an international
non-profit organization based in France.
Exactly like CERT, our US counterpart, our first goal is to provide
accurate information about computer security vulnerabilities, provide
incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attacks,
publish security alerts and find new vulnerabilities. Our next goal is to
represent concerned computer users and organizations as an advocacy
league.
Why HERT is a better alternative to CERT?
National Computer Security Center, a sub-branch of the National Security
Agency initiated the creation of the Computer Emergency Response Team and
was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA).
A majority of people think CERT is doing a brilliant job, but when you
examine CERT more closely, one could believe CERT is a bit corrupted.
Just take a look at the CERT statistics, since 1995, for 1027
vulnerabilities reported, they have published only 55 advisories
bulletins. Is this a joke, did they count duplicate vulnerability reports?
Was there 1000 cert initiated vendor advisories?
>From an organization directed by US Military Intelligence, you must
assume the worst especially when they brag about their Information
Superiority.
We decided to create HERT, when system administrators of highly sensitive
US networks informed us that they were supplied with official vendor
patches months before public announcement were made by vendors, CERT or
full-disclosure mailing lists like Bugtraq.
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Received on Thu Mar 11 16:58:39 1999