Alignment Contracts for Agentic Security Systems

Agentic security systems increasingly combine LLM planners with tools that can discover, validate, and report vulnerabilities. This creates an asymmetric control problem: the system should retain strong offensive capability inside an authorized engagement, while the same capabilities must be deni...

U.S. Agencies Must Adopt Vulnerability-Disclosure Policies by March 2021

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is now requiring federal agencies to implement vulnerability-disclosure policies VDPs, which would give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting bugs found in government systems, by next March. Currently, most federal agencies lack a formal...

CISA Pushing U.S. Agencies to Adopt Vulnerability Disclosure Policies

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has issued a draft directive mandating all agencies to develop vulnerability disclosure policies, which would give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting bugs found in government systems. Security experts hope that the directive will light a fir...

ThreatList: Bug Bounty Payouts Increase Six Percent for Critical Vulnerabilities

The average payout price for critical vulnerabilities are up six percent and now average $2,041 compared to the prior year. The numbers are from HackerOne’s 2018 Hacker-Powered Security Report, published Wednesday. The study looked at data derived from the HackerOne community between May 2017 and...

w00w00 on AOL Instant Messenger (serious vulnerability)

================================= AOL Instant Messenger advisory w00w00! http://www.w00w00.org ================================= Author: Matt Conover [email protected] Contributors: nocarrier, napster, and w00w00 collectively PRELUDE Happy w00year! It has been a while, friends, but w00w00 is sti...