Monthly Archives: June 2010

OVAL, SCAP, CVE, CPE, …

For a personal POC I wanted to see if it is possible to generate, based on the collection of CVE entries publicly available, a report informing a system administrator about possible vulnerabilities. Nothing fancy, just based upon versions. A simple … Continue reading

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Listing files of (not) installed software

Everyone that has been using Gentoo for a while now knows about tools such as qlist that show you the list of files installed by an (installed) package, or qfile that allows you to find which package provided a particular … Continue reading

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GSE TWS BeLux 2010

Today, IBM generously hosted the GSE TWS BeLux 2010 conference. Although it was organized together with the GSE DB2 conference (which I would also have loved to attend) I must say I was pretty impressed with the topics given, especially … Continue reading

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