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Guesswork Plagues Web Hole Reporting
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-03-06

A good Samaritan has trouble getting the attention of a fashion retailer leaking customer credit card numbers. Should reporting security holes in e-commerce sites be easier?

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Guesswork Plagues Web Hole Reporting 2002-03-13
Andrew Daviel
www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

RFC 2142 specifies several standard mailboxes. "abuse"

is very common, "security" less so. Someone should at least

listen on "abuse" as that's the place to report their

servers doing a DDoS attack. Reading this mail is the price

of doing business on the net.

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