It's counter productive and companies who take routes to ignore responsible security disclosure or deny them show their disregard for their user's security. Many security researchers passionately care for security and simplely want to help companies fix issues they discovered.
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Instead of treating security researchers like hostile actors looking to extort their website, companies should at least address the issue discovered by the researcher. This over sensationalized fear of security needs to end and the Infosec community as a whole is changing that
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What started this thread was an interaction with a company that ran an auction website which handled high volume of transactions. First reached out by email then by their twitter account. I was consequently blocked by their twitter account and appears they're also covering it up.
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Due to a vulnerability I discovered, an attacker would of been able to log into their DB and access customer passwords/usernames, and other sensitive data. Their reaction was to simplely block and ignore communication attempts which is counter intuivitve as I previously stated.
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This company is
@furbuy, as of right now I still haven't had any communications from them and still blocked. Their website is currently offline due to a "Ddos" which isn't likely due to the issue I found revolved around their database.pic.twitter.com/IFz5T8N7HRShow this thread -
At this point public disclosure with lack of vulnerability details or sensitive data, is the best way to make their users aware of the state of security for this website.
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It's also interesting to note that I discovered what looked like a photo of a valid visa and an expired passport. Unsure if it's the website owner's or possibly a user's, regardless it's a hot mess. They also had a flow chart of how the various files interacted.
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It also appears to use insecure hashing of passwords with SHA2 as well. You'd get kick out of this
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Here's another interesting thing to note. They have a tool which can create a back up of their database along with the supplied credentials to access said database. Another thing to note they also store already made back ups in specific static locationpic.twitter.com/f54AkdXsEV
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im just gonna tweet this as a mental note to possibly hire you for some security hunting in my companies.( i am sure as hell no security expert, and ill be dammed if i get caught sweeping it under the rugs)
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