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Google Up Ante For Disclosure Rules, Increases Bug Bounty
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent post by seven members of their security team, Google lashed out against the current standards of responsible disclosure, and implicitly backed the recent actions of Tavis Ormandy (who is listed as one of the authors). The company said it believed 60 days should be an 'upper bound' for fixing critical vulnerabilities, and asked to to be held to the same standard by external researchers. In another, nearly simultaneous post to the Chromium blog, Google also announced they are raising the security reward for Chrome vulnerabilities to $3133.7, apparently in response to Mozilla's recent action."
Read the actual reporting on what happened. Tavis gave MS 60-days, but they refused to commit to any timeline. So, he went ahead and disclosed immediately, along with a fix for affected systems.
It's also important to understand that Tavis has been reporting critical vulnerabilities to MS for years--and in some cases waited over a year for them to push a fix. This time he saw something trivial that should be fixed immediately and he put their feet to the fire. Oddly enough, they did push out their own fix in under 60 days after the vulnerability was made public. So you don't have to agree with his methods, but you should at least frame the situation correctly.