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cert catalogs major vulnerabilities from across companies and systems as they are found, reported, or made public. A reliable clearing House for knowing what needs updating since when and how urgently.
SSL certs and cert authorities are a more endemic problem with puters and the webs. so the fact that IT in furloughed depts have lapsed SSL certs being a big deal would require APTs already in place undetected prior to furloughed in order to acquire knowledge of upcoming lapsed certs in order for such knowledge to be useful in leveraging an exploit for gain. it will take outside groups a bit upon learning of the situation before any plans get hatched for capers