Re: How to report a Vulnerability to a Company

[Liran Cohen <theog () rct co il>]

in my eyes, unless you make it a habit of yours to pen test systems you 
weren't paid for, you shouldn't even try and hack them (pen test - or 
whatever you would call it) if you decide do something illegal I would 
expect that it is all a matter of time and money, how much for how long 
that company is willing to pay in order to find out who infiltrated 
their systems.

Cheers,

krymson () gmail com wrote:
> Before you go the anonymous route, think about how truly anonymous you are. If you report a vulnerability to the company, and they 
> (rightly) decide to scan their logs to see if someone has exploited that vulnerability, they may come across you in the logs. Since 
> they don't know you, this might trigger an incident response process. If the exploit is big enough and the process continued 
> enough, they might pursue you and disclose to their customers before they realize it was just you. Hopefully if you go this route, you 
> did your "testing" from a non-identifiable Internet connection.
>
> (Note: I'm not condoning "testing" sites from an anonymous account, but the grey hat in me says that if you do decide to go 
> this dubious route, do so with some foresight and use someone else's box/connection, whether that be a wifi hotspot, proxy, or ssh 
> tunnel...)
>
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