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Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program (go.theregister.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 hours ago

I was, like, w-what CVE program. I don't know of any "CVE" programs that could be shut down, so I don't know what that abbreviation refers to.

Unless...

...oh no. Fuck. The actual CVE program? And they're just gonna- Shit.

What.

How.

I don't know how many times I've said "America is fucked" when reading the news lately, and I should stop doing that, because that fact has now been so well established that there's no need to elaborate.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 27 points 2 hours ago

REPUBLICANS. Not some nebulous "uncle sam". Republicans are turning off funding. They deserve 100% of the blame because they are 100% the cause.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 hours ago

It’s not Uncle Sam, or the USA shutting this down. It’s the Republican Administration. They’ve been empowered by the Republican led Congress to shut down anything it doesn’t like, understand, or benefit from.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 30 points 3 hours ago

Right before Windows 10 loses security updates too, what a coincidence. Wonder what the Russians are working on...

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 92 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws

Just in case

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago

Thank you. I've never heard this acronym before, myself.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

thank you i was spaghetti walling and none of my backronyms were fitting

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 2 hours ago

Fascinating series of words I've never heard before

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 26 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

2017: covfefe

2025: cvefefe

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

We need a alterntive that doesn't rely on the U.S.A it can be from any country

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 5 hours ago

For most people the consequences of this action will be too far away to understand the connection, so it's a pretty good target for the US Republican party.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

MAGA supporter: yup! Waste and fraud to me.

idiots!

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The EU needs to start planning now (well, really, needed to start planning in 2016) to replace every critical system that relies in any way on the US government.

If you think of money invested vs. return on government programs like this, the benefit is incredible. That it's being discontinued is obvious proof that the US is run by the agents of its own destruction and cannot be relied upon in any way: not as a supplier of military equipment, or information technology, or economic codependency.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago

They're doing so much of this shit quietly, but when you start to put each piece together it should be frightening to anyone that doesn't believe Russia is our BFF.

In late Feb, just after the whole Zelenskyy White House visit, Hegseth issued an order to Cyber Command to halt all planning against Russia including cybersecurity offensive strategies.

He gave the order to Commander Timothy Haugh, who is also head of the National Security Agency. Haugh told the outgoing director of operations, and cyber command begun putting together an official document of why this is a very bad idea.

I missed this completely until yesterday, but it turns out that Haugh and his NSA deputy were both suddenly ousted from their positions less than 2 weeks ago.

No reason was given they were just told "your services are no longer required." Apparently Laura Loomer requested Trump have them removed and made some vague accusations against them bc they had been installed under Biden.

I admit I hadn't heard of CVE program before today. Since we are BFFs now and Russia is "totally not a threat" to the U.S., I guess it's supposed to be ok because friends share everything. But wouldn't this also make us incredibly more vulnerable to China and any other country?

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 59 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I listen to SN while at work. I may take next Tuesday night off and grab a big bag of popcorn.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wish I could see Steve's reaction as he learned it

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Probably going to be the first episode where they will need to beep out a swear word

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 hours ago

Imagine being one of the tech billionaires who Trump bankrolled and he does this- basically handing out wrenches for people to throw.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 hours ago

Literally the rest of world against these fuckers soon.

[–] crowbar@kbin.earth 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

get well soon, uncle sam

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

Best to take it and its 2 brothers out of their missery

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

On the bright side, at least our upcoming American cyberpunk dystopia is now more likely to feature a greater prevelance of lone wolf, broke, two bit hackers as a semi-viable lifestyle/'career path'...

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It shouldn't surpris too much given Mike Pondsmith's general record of clairvoyance that NetWatch is a European Corp.

And, no, "Vos videmus" totally isn't a creepy motto. Based out of London, one could almost think that it's the London CCTV system turned sentient AI.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

All that has to happen for a 'Blackwall' analagous scenario is enough undersea cables get cut/sabotaged.

Then you're looking at a much more localized internet, where actually having a reliable or high bandwidth connection to a very far away place requires you to either have an insane jerry rigged solution, or a lot of money to pay for an increasing valuable, still existing intercontinental line.

Of course, we very much could also end up with a more intentionally constructed type of widespread firewalling as well... they already exist.

China's great firewall, tons of other countries that have internet and/or social media killswitches...

... And we are already seeing massive bandwidth from corpo AI scrapers trying to harvest data to train their AIs leading to people making new ways to detect, block, and or trap them in infinite loops, to save their own servers from going down.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You say cyberpunk dystopia… I say 1776.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

... As soon as you find documents from the founding fathers addressing best practices and policies regarding cybersecurity, let me know.

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 239 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

us capitalism has nowhere else to expand. its eating itself now.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

I've been having this feeling for a while now, and not just with the US

[–] db2@lemmy.world 100 points 14 hours ago

They're Russian puppets, both things are true.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 20 points 11 hours ago

this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US

You got that right.

[–] Iamnotafish@lemmy.ml 41 points 13 hours ago

I suspect that the administration that asked their people to stop focusing on Russia in the cyber space is deliberately trying to weaken our security posture in relation to said country. This confirms it.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 12 hours ago

I'm half-sure Trump put price tags on everything in the WH and every time you see a stupid thing in US foreign policy (local is guided by P25), you may hear Donald's OF donation bell ring.

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[–] dan69@lemmy.world 56 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Adds cybersecurity to resume** Finally gets hired..

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Good luck, I've been trying for 2 months and I was a senior engineer.

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago

Sorry to hear that, i wish you positive luck in the near future!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

My sense is orgs are correcting now from the over-hiring they did a few years ago. Our InfoSec department blew up over the last 5 years as did many corporations but the problem is in the boom you had, for lack of a better way to put it, a lot of morons snuck in under the auspices of "I took a course I'm a security engineer!"

Now corporations are moving on to risk mitigation which is a completely different skillset.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 103 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Ruzza just creamed their pants

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago

North Korea too. Big win for them

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Part of the plan

[–] msage@programming.dev 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Part of the deal

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Art of the deal!

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Fart of a deal!

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 40 points 13 hours ago

Can't wait until I don't have to upgrade software anymore!

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 46 points 14 hours ago

Well, this way the apartheidist will never see the bugs he's introduced into any of the systems he's broken.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 12 hours ago

Yes, this will end well. I wonder how the org will evolve from this or will another country pick it up... Will be interesting to see.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Age of Fire is ending in America. The President is a Hollow working for Darkstalker Kaathe.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 5 points 10 hours ago

We shouldn't all have to deal with this alone

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