1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies - zendesk.md

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today
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    19 days ago

    Lmao, Zendesk made their own post (edit: a troll account linked it acting as them, but the actual Zendesk post is still something else) saying the person who disclosed this violated ethical principles while also saying they (zendesk) discovered this issue.

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      19 days ago

      It’s a terrible way to take your company rank on these security forums.

      When a company does that (pretend like they discovered the issue to avoid paying a bounty), they often end up on a shit list where bored hackers pentest them for funsies and then release the vulnerability in the wild.

      Source: Im on the team at my job that pays hackers and their streams frequently broadcast shitty companies that refuse to pay.