Katie Moussouris on Free ISO 29147

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributor is Katie Moussouris @k8em0. Today marks an exciting development in the often monotonous rehashing of vulnerability disclosure. The ISO standard tha...

Stakeholders Argue Against Restrictive Wassennaar Proposal

The commenting period regarding the Wassenaar Arrangement expired on Monday but the echo chamber around the largely maligned proposal continues to reverberate. Several stakeholders implicated in the proposal added their voices to that chamber on Friday morning, urging the government to revise...

Adobe Starts Vulnerability Disclosure Program on HackerOne

Update: Adobe is the latest tech vendor to begin a vulnerability disclosure program, but it seems they’re limping in at the outset. The program launched this week on the HackerOne platform, but there are no cash incentives being offered and certain Adobe products are not in scope for researchers...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards

Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same thing. New research from the University of California at Berkeley, which focused on bug bounty programs run by Google and Mozilla, fou...

New HP Report Shows 19 Percent Drop in Reported Vulnerabilities

A new study due for public release Thursday shows vulnerabilities reported in commercial software applications fell significantly last year, but almost a quarter of those found were considered at high risk for exploitation. The “2011 Top Cyber Security Risks Report,” based on data from HP’s DV...

Pentagon Requests Half Billion in Funding to DARPA

In the Pentagon’s 2012 defense budget request, DARPA stands to receive roughly a half billion dollars in funding to “invest in cybertechnologies.” However, what that means is unclear. The announcement represents growing concerns by the federal government that the United States is sorely...

Facebook Revises Bug Disclosure Policy

Social networking behemoth Facebook revised their bug disclosure policy last week to protect well-intentioned vulnerability researchers from potential lawsuits stemming from their discoveries. The revisions, which were made with the assistance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are part of...