July, 2010

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Fixing responsible disclosure

Scary Beasts Security

Today I had the pleasure to post: [link] It is co-signed by some of my awesome fellow engineers who personally believe in what is written. Recent discussions and debates have shown that "responsible disclosure" is broken. It is badly named and ill-defined. Possibly the worst problem with responsible disclosure is that is permits known critical vulnerabilities to go unfixed for months or even years.

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Recent Developments and Decisions Under Circular 230

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Laura Gavioli has published an article in the June-July issue of the Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure. The piece addresses […].

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More money for critical Chromium security bugs!

Scary Beasts Security

We've seen who is $1337 but who is $3133.7 ? I just launched this: [link] I've really enjoyed launching and now refreshing this program.

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Firefox fixes CSS-based cross-origin theft issue

Scary Beasts Security

Firefox just released version 3.6.7 of their excellent browser, and it fixes this: [link] This leaves 4 of the 5 major browsers with fixes (more on this in an upcoming post), which is my threshold for documenting a little tweak to exploitability. It is partially inspired by Gareth Heyes' attack on E4X using character set overrides. For interesting background reading, see: [link] Turns out, the same character set override applies to loading cross-origin CSS via the tag.

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The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software

How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.