responsible disclosure

Three Minutes with Rain Forest Puppy (RFP interview by Zetter)

2001/09/28 : Here is a Rain Forest Puppy interview done by Kim Zetter about the RFPolicy.

In June 2000, the hacker Rain Forest Puppy published his RFPolicy. The policy is known as the first attempt to formalize the complex issue of disclosure to the vendor or maintainer....Read more

NIAC VULNERABILITY DISCLOSURE FRAMEWORK

2004/01/13 : The National Infrastructure Advisory Concil published in January 2004 their Final report and recommendations on vulnerability disclosure.

"The NIAC reached consensus that the nation’s interests are advanced by a commitment by all stakeholders in...Read more

Exploit Code on Trial (Poulsen paper)

2003/11/23 : "Security pros gathering at a Stanford University Law School conference on responsible vulnerability disclosure Saturday harmonized on the principle that vendors should be privately notified of holes in their products, and given at least some time to produce a patch before any...Read more

Efail: What A Disclosure FAIL That Was! (RBS article)

2018/05/16: Article criticizing the handling of the EFAIL vulnerabilities disclosureRead more

IETF

Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process - draft-christey-wysopal-vuln-disclosure-00.txt
'Responsible Disclosure' Draft Could Have Legal Muscle - Rasch on Christey and Wysopal draft
Schneier - Crypto-Gram March 15, 2002
The realities of Disclosure : Morgenstern and Parker on Christey and Wysopal failure
FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure Version 1.1 2020

Spring 2020 : Here is the Version 1.1 of the FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure. 

This artifact is part of the FIRST Vulnerability Disclosure Bundle...Read more

Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process - draft-christey-wysopal-vuln-disclosure-00.txt

2002/02 : IETF Draft by Steve Christey from MITRE and Chris Wysopal :

"During the process of disclosure, many vendors, security researchers, and other parties follow a variety of unwritten or informal guidelines for how they interact and share information. Some parties may be unaware of...Read more

Anti-Sec Movement

Ant-Sec - We are going to terminate Hackforums.net and Milw0rm.com - New Apache 0-day exploit uncovered
AntiSecurity Presentation
AntiSec Policy
ImageShack hacked in oddball security protest (anti-sec movement)
AntiSecurity Presentation

Here is the presentation of the AntiSecurity movement. 

This artifact is part of the Anti-Sec movement Bundle.Read more

The realities of Disclosure : Morgenstern and Parker on Christey and Wysopal failure

2002/07/12 : Michael Morgenstern and Tom Parker point to the failure of Christey and Wysopal's willingness to put in place common measures for responsible disclosure.

"Unfortunately, Steve Christey and Chris Wysopol's RFC of February...Read more

Deconstructing the myths behind the full-disclosure debate (Shepherd paper)

2003/01/22 : Stephen A. Shepherd published in SANS a paper which had a big influence on vulnerability disclosure discussion. He defines responsible disclosure and recalls the key events on vulnerability disclosure debate. Read more

FIRST Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines

FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure
Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination Open to Review (on FIRST Guidelines)
FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure Version 1.1 2020
FIRST updates guidelines for multi-party vulnerability disclosure (Haworth Paper)
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