Category Archives: Patching

A true chance to make CVE a true community program

Application Security, Government and Regulation, News, Organization, Companies and Institutes, Patching, Risk Management, The Information Security Profession, Thoughts, VulnerabilitiesEitan Caspi

This is something I always say – we have too little global, horizontal, community initiatives in cybersecurity. Lots of private and commercial initiatives, but fewer community ones.

The CVE program, run by MITRE, is running out of funding from the US government.
This event can be a trigger to change this. This is a golden opportunity for a change for good for the industry.

This is a chance to change it to be a global program, not only US controlled, funded by governments from around the world, plus core monetary support from the cybersecurity vendors and services giants who make billions of dollars out of cybersecurity and rely on CVE data.

“U.S. Govt. Funding for MITRE’s CVE Ends April 16, Cybersecurity Community on Alert”
https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/us-govt-funding-for-mitres-cve-ends.html

Windows Update reset script

Patching, Tips, ToolsEitan Caspi 
There are quite a few times that Windows Update gets stuck with bizarre error codes.
At first I tried Microsoft Windows Update Troubleshooter, but it did not help in most of
the cases.
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There are various sites that suggest a manual, long and tedious process to reset 
Windows Update, but better yet - there is a script which automates this process, 
so with only a few keystrokes it runs this process properly, fast and easy. This 
script certainly helped me, so I guess it will help you too. Give it a try.