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Title    Adobe Accidentally Publishes One of its Private PGP Keys
Date    Saturday September 23 2017, @04:10PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the information-wants-to-be-free? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/09/23/0053227

takyon writes:

Adobe is showing that it can be transparent about its security practices:

Having some transparency about security problems with software is great, but Adobe's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) took that transparency a little too far today when a member of the team posted the PGP keys for PSIRT's e-mail account—both the public and the private keys. The keys have since been taken down, and a new public key has been posted in its stead.

The faux pas was spotted at 1:49pm ET by security researcher Juho Nurminen:

Oh shit Adobe pic.twitter.com/7rDL3LWVVz
— Juho Nurminen (@jupenur) September 22, 2017

Nurminen was able to confirm that the key was associated with the psirt@adobe.com e-mail account.

Also at The Register and Wccftech.

[How many here have done something like this? Perhaps an extra file accidentally uploaded to GitHub? --Ed.]


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "transparent about its security practices" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/in-spectacular-fail-adobe-security-team-posts-private-pgp-key-on-blog/
  3. "have since been taken down" - https://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/?page_id=146
  4. "new public key" - https://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/?page_id=1498
  5. "pic.twitter.com/7rDL3LWVVz" - https://twitter.com/jupenur/status/911286403434246144/photo/1
  6. "September 22, 2017" - https://twitter.com/jupenur/status/911286403434246144
  7. "The Register" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/22/oh_dear_adobe_security_blog_leaks_private_key_info/
  8. "Wccftech" - http://wccftech.com/adobe-leaks-private-pgp-key/
  9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22417

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