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Why the CVE database for tracking security flaws nearly went dark - and what happens next
Expired US government funding nearly disrupted this global security system. How can we prevent this from happening again in 11 months?
fotograzia/Getty ImagesMITRE VP Yosry Barsoum warned that the government contract support enabling MITRE " to develop, operate, and modernize CVE" would expire on April 16. That would mean, Barsoum continued, "multiple impacts to CVE, including deterioration of national vulnerability databases and advisories, tool vendors, incident response operations, and all manner of critical infrastructure." The CVE program, which has cataloged more than 274,000 publicly disclosed security flaws since its inception in 1999, is relied upon by governments, private industry, and open-source communities -- in short, everyone-- to track and coordinate responses to software holes.
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