Author Archives: soandos

Mapping installed software names/versions to CPEs [closed]

Posted on October 23, 2022 by soandos

I frequently get a list of applications installed on some set of workstations with versions/vendors/software names, but those names are more free text than anything else (for example, PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION PYTHON FOR WINDOWS 3.8.10 (c… Continue reading Mapping installed software names/versions to CPEs [closed]→

Posted in CVE, Vulnerability Assessment

WORM media types

Posted on December 10, 2011 by soandos

Why types of media are Write Once Read Many (WORM) other than CD-R, and DVD-R, say, something in the 100GB range?

Are there such devices?

What would it take to read them?

Are the devices like this that can do their one wri… Continue reading WORM media types→

Posted in Hardware, storage