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Re: Fwd: How to report a Vulnerability to a Company

Subject: Re: Fwd: How to report a Vulnerability to a Company
Date: 25 Feb 2008 02:01:49 -0000
Well, I believe it depends on the specific "incorrect" key the person had 
entered. I believe you could explain the situation to an IT Staff or a Support 
team, explaining that you had pressed an incorrect key and the functionality 
had disposed informational data, in which you took the time to report, for the 
better of YOU the user, the website, and the overall "what to do, I'm stuck" 
problem. Also, if this was a legal act that was done by mistake, then even in 
the servers logs,it should not appear as if illegal requests were being made in 
connection to that incorrect key, therefore it wouldn't look as harmful as an 
attack. If done promptly, the logs should show you being the last referring 
user after the error had displayed. 

-Yousif Yalda
-Security Consultant
-Http://Vapt-Sec.Com
-Http://YousifYalda.BlogSpot.Com

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