RE: Publishing Findings on Commercial Applications

From: Sahir Hidayatullah (sahirh@mielesecurity.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2006 - 16:40:30 EDT


Might be a better idea to contact the vendor first.
These days you can get into all sorts of trouble for revealing flaws.

Besides, it's probably more ethical to work with them first isn't it ? :)

You could also follow RFP's disclosure policy:
http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html

Regards,

--S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jezebel Ali [mailto:jezebel_ali@hush.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:00 AM
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Publishing Findings on Commercial Applications

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Greetings Brother and Sister List Members,

I have question: If I performing Penetration Test on customer site
and this customer has a commercial application which is not
publicly available for download or purchase, do I have a right to
publish finding of this application to the public without
mentioning customer name?

This application widely used by banking and financial industry and
not always available to anyone for testing.

Kind regards,
Jez
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