US Vulnerability Database Yanked Over Malware Infestation 52
hypnosec writes "The US government's National Vulnerability Database (NVD) maintained by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been offline for a few days because of malware infestation. The public-facing site has been taken offline because traces of malware were found on two of the web servers that house it. A post on Google+ containing an email from Gail Porter details the discovery of suspicious activity and subsequent steps taken by NIST. As of this writing the NVD website is still serving a page not found message."
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Yes, sorry, I phrased that wrong.
NVD's search will reference the STIGs and then link to the .mil location. For us civilian types the NVD site is the gateway.