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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the la-la-la-can't-hear-you dept.

[Update: Corrected title per first comment. Also, should you find any kind of vulnerability with SoylentNews, please send a description to "dev" at "soylentnews.org" and we'll address it as soon as possible. --martyb]

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Almost a quarter of hackers have not reported a vulnerability that they found because the company didn't have a channel to disclose it, according to a survey of the ethical hacking community.

With 1,698 respondents, the 2018 Hacker Report, conducted by the cybersecurity platform HackerOne, is the largest documented survey ever conducted of the ethical hacking community.

In the survey, HackerOne reports that nearly 1 in 4 hackers have not reported a vulnerability because the company in question lacks a vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) or a formal method for receiving vulnerability submissions from the outside world.

Without a VDP, ethical, white-hat hackers are forced to go through other channels like social media or emailing personnel in the company, but, as the survey states, they are "frequently ignored or misunderstood".

But that means that three-quarters DO, which I guess is good news. Or at least not bad news.

Source: http://factor-tech.com/connected-world/27830-a-quarter-of-ethical-hackers-dont-report-cybersecurity-concerns-because-its-not-clear-who-they-should-be-reporting-them-to/


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  • (Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday January 19 2018, @01:32PM (1 child)

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Friday January 19 2018, @01:32PM (#624672)

    They weren't in things that I owned or an org I worked for, though sometimes they were for vendors clients hired, but I appreciate the sentiment.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday January 19 2018, @03:20PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday January 19 2018, @03:20PM (#624709)

    Yes, again, you tried and you deserve recognition. In life, in general, I wish more people cared to try to make the world better.

    I've worked in and for, and been a highly integral part of companies and organizations where most of the time, if I tried to improve something, I was met with resistance, opposition, and all-out roadblocks. In my first job, pre-college, tiny company, one of my roles was final QC- test, calibration, etc. I would tell the bosses the thing was not ready to be shipped, but they would insist on shipping "on time". A week or two later I would be getting on a plane with tools. Not sure how profitable that could be.