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Google engineer faces etiquette rap over Windows flaw

...security researchers have accused a Google engineer of failing to follow the responsible disclosure etiquette his own company promotes by disclosing a Windows XP-related... Read more

14 June, 2010 by Elinor Mills

LulzSec leader 'Sabu' was FBI informant

...a chatroom in late January to talk to members of LulzSec about responsible disclosure of documents, including one claiming to be Sabu. Hanff said since... Read more

6 March, 2012

GitHub suspends member over 'mass-assignment' hack

...Today, he found and exploited the public key form update vulnerability without responsible disclosure," Preston-Werner said, explaining that this had meant Homakov had broken... Read more

5 March, 2012

Facebook offers bounties to bug hunters

...maximum set, will be paid only to researchers who follow Facebook's Responsible Disclosure Policy and agree not to go public with the vulnerability information... Read more

1 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Researcher: Skype for Mac has 'dangerous' vulnerability

...will give a full disclosure after Skype takes action or a reasonable responsible disclosure time." According to Maddern, Skype's Windows and Linux clients are... Read more

6 May, 2011

Researcher rejects chip-and-PIN flaw 'censorship'

...publication of Choudary's research, code and schematics breached the boundary of responsible disclosure. "Essentially, [the publication] places in the public domain a blueprint for... Read more

29 December, 2010 by Jack Clark

Google gives vendors 60 days to fix critical flaws

...best interests of end-users for researchers to follow a policy of "responsible disclosure". Under this policy, flaws are privately reported to vendors, and the... Read more

21 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Opera repairs severe bugs in stable version

...less severe. Opera spokesman Thomas Ford explained that this was because of responsible disclosure practices, contingent upon agreements with each individual security researcher, and that... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Seth Rosenblatt

Microsoft seeks credit for finding third-party flaws

...with vulnerabilities found in its own software, Cushman said. The issue of responsible disclosure is under constant debate, with vendors often arguing that researchers are... Read more

8 August, 2008 by Elinor Mills

MS group to oversee hack reports

...NTBugTraq," published his own guidelines for an independent security group, called the Responsible Disclosure Forum. Cooper boycotted Microsoft's conference largely because he distrusts the... Read more

9 November, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Vulnerability auctions compromising security

...of, for example, a nice mention from Microsoft on an advisory under 'responsible disclosure' or pay off my mortgage, which one do I choose?" Responsible... Read more

19 July, 2006 by Munir Kotadia

TippingPoint to offer bug bounty

...We want to reward and encourage independent security research, promote and ensure responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities and provide 3Com customers with the world's best... Read more

25 July, 2005 by Joris Evers

Reporting software flaws safely

...researcher in an attempt to silence the researcher. Whenever you follow the responsible-disclosure route, you're always taking a risk because the company knows... Read more

8 June, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

Security exploits: Who's to blame?

...on how it was addressing the problems afterwards. "Oracle supports guidelines for responsible disclosure. One of those guidelines is that the company should send out... Read more

6 September, 2005 by Joris Evers and Marguerite Reardon

Home Office shrugs off ID card hack demo

...modification technology to UK government officials. "The way I work is through responsible disclosure," said Laurie. "The only reason we went public is that the... Read more

7 August, 2009 by Tom Espiner

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