One way to receive up-to-date reports about vulnerability issues is subscribing to vulnerability RSS feeds: they update on demand, they don’t rely on your mail subsystem and they don’t fill up your mailbox. The only drawback is that you could miss alerts if you don’t sync your feeds for a long time, but if you’re a IT security manager, you don’t have a life, so how could it happen anyways?

Here’s the top feeds you should be subscribed to (CVE tags are reported in brackets):

1. NIST Vulnerability Database.
2. US Cert Technical Security Alerts [CERT].
3. SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities [SF-INCIDENTS].
4. Open Source Vulnerability Database [OSVDB].
5. IBM Internet Security Systems Threats [ISS].
6. Vupen Security Advisories [VUPEN].
7. Secunia Latest Security Advisories (Unofficial) [SECUNIA].
8. eEye Security Advisories [EEYE].

The above list is also available as OPML file you can import into your feed reader.

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According to this advisory written by Tavis Ormandy, Windows has been exposed to a vulnerability for over 15 years! Microsoft will only release a patch for supported products, so if you have any Windows 2000 or earlier in your lab, the only way to fix is disabling DOS and WOWEXEC.