Re: University of Central Florida Multiple LFI

[Eyeballing Weev <eyeballing.weev () gmail com>]

Shawn,

"Hack Talk" would rather fire off 5 emails than pick up a phone, make a 
phone call and call someone from the WHOIS information since by his own 
admission he's a Florida resident who lives near UCF or maybe he's 
worried about law enforcement after all ;-)


On 02/19/2011 12:46 PM, Hack Talk wrote:
> Hey Shawn,
>
> I typically follow the Rain Forest Puppy Responsible Disclosure Policy
> which I'm sure many people have read. I even extended the contact time
> to 2 weeks since Universities are quite busy places. During those 2
> weeks I personally emailed them back 5 times and did not get a single
> response back. This is not the first time the University has neglected
> to respond to vulnerabilities affecting their sites and as such I
> decided that enough was enough and that by publicly disclosing these
> vulnerabilities they would be forced to patch their code. I've worked
> with many Universities in the past to patch there vulnerabilities and
> they have responded typically within 12 hours of me sending my initial
> email alerting them to the issue. Being a .edu does not exempt you from
> hackers wanting into your system and it does not mean you can get away
> with having gaping holes in security for months without patching them.
>
> Full Disclosure as a methodology is about forcing people to fix their
> holes which is exactly what I was hoping would happen to UCF.
>
> Thanks for doing your best to extinguish the flamewar that was starting :D.
>
>
> Luis Santana

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