Re:I found a security issue on a competitor, got fired and s...
by anonzzzies on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:51AM
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I work in banking and when probing (internal) api’s of partners/clients you accidentally find stuff; they are all very broken and it is normal to find bugs and holes while just probing the use of the api; not trying to find issues. Not sure how to prevent that and no I don’t know how far I can go; I know I cannot do my integration work if I do not do it. Not sure how others can. I would never report bugs to them though; I am old and cynical; software is very broken (especially since the Big Move to modern tech; I see more and more ‘out facing’ (still internal) APIs in banks written in js (not blaming the language but blaming the vast amount of cheap and untrained coders in that language niche); we used to write those apis against the real ‘basement’ backends, now they do (usually hiring an external consultancy corp like cap Gemini for big $$$ who then has it done by their offshore teams) and it is a freakin’ horror show; same for insurers); I assume going in I can somehow query all creditcard numbers in there, so no need to tell them that.
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