Re: Publishing Findings on Commercial Applications

[intel96 <intel96 () bellsouth net>]

Why would you want to make this information public?  Self promotion maybe?

Over the past year I have found vulnerabilities in several commercial
products in the routing, switching,  voip, and  wireless space.  I did
not post my findings to the world I sent my testing notes to the vendors
to fix their problems.  I have found that road the best to travel with
the vendors and my customers.

If you found security issues relating to the application that you were
testing tell the vendor.  If the vulnerabilities were related to
customer configuration issues than write a white paper outlining best
practices for the application, you will get more traction.

Intel96



On 6/13/06, Jezebel Ali <jezebel_ali () hush com> wrote:
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> > 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.


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