Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by nso on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:59PM
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nd of course the email adress should be encrypted (2 way)
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Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by tptacek on Thursday October 20, 2016 @11:56PM
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Anyone who tells you they're "encrypting" email addresses in their SaaS app is almost certainly describing a cosmetic security feature.
Every day of the week and four times and Tuesday I'd prefer the team that spends their marginal dollar on finding the next marginal reflected XSS bug than the one that wastes it on "two-way encryption of email addresses".
I don't know what Weebly does for appsec (I've never worked with them and probably never will), but if they've spent even $50 on external appsec testing, they're 1000% better than 90% of rest of the applications we all use every day.
Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by drusenko on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:48AM
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In terms of appsec, we run quarterly black box pen tests and annual comprehensive white box pen tests with well regarded firms, and have been rotating vendors on a regular basis for diversity. We also do a lot of stuff internally, like regular scanning, and internal sprints focused on vuln detection. We've been doing this for years. That's not to say we're perfect (we clearly are not) but we do take it seriously.