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Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by DINKDINK on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:07PM (#9541612)
>Seriously every vulnerability will have it's own cool name and a website now?

is your argument that awareness of this issue would have been better if there wasn't a cool name and website?

Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by dogma1138 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @05:34PM (#9542120)
My argument is that raising awareness needs to be done in a tasteful manner, not spreading panic and using pop cloture references.

VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT NEGLECTED OPERATIONS MANIPULATION VENOM seriously, kinda reminds me of:

Ward: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

Hill: And what does that mean to you?

Ward: It means someone really wanted our initials to spell out "SHIELD."

At least heartbleed and shellshock were kinda properly named, this one is a hell of a stretch.

Inb4 people start registering silly domains that can be used to spell out vulnerabilities.

CITRUS: Channel Insecure Transport Releases User Sessions

TBONE: Transmission Buffer Overflow Network Exploitation

BUTTER: Buffer Underrun Transactional Execution Relay

Let the parking wars begin!

Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by jcox92 on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:22PM (#9542828)
They need to sound way scarier than that, though.

BONECRUSH: Buffer Overrun Neatly Exceeds Current Reusable User Storage Hindrances

FACENEEDLE: Foreign Actors Can Execute Nefarious Executables, Even During Lockdown... Exploit

HELLSCREAM: Hack Exploiting Lazy Loading Standard Core Runtime Executables And Modules

Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by reinhardt on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @06:25PM (#9542378)
Quick, someone propose a .vln or .vuln gTLD!