Governor Parson says that the incident could cost the state’s taxpayers $50 million. Obviously, those kinds of sums aren’t reasonable for school districts, which often have underfunded IT departments due to shrinking budgets, but there’re a lot of options between paying out large sums of money and threatening legal action. Locate your 'hosts' file in c:windowssystem32driversetc and add the lines below to it then save and reboot: Block Adobe Activation. With a bug bounty, they’re telling you so you can fix it rather than selling that info on the dark web or using it for personal gain. For those experiencing the annoying Adobe ID popup when launching programs you can try updating your hosts file and adding the lines below. The reason these exist is that they’ll make your systems safer - yes, people will look for and find vulnerabilities, but there was likely already somebody doing that anyways. Many organizations have bug or security bounties worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they’ll pay to hackers who find and responsibly disclose flaws like these. Missouri’s response is, to put it lightly, the exact opposite of standard practice. The governor’s response flies in the face of standard practice However, it reportedly also included the employee’s SSN in the page it returned - while it apparently didn’t appear as visible text on the screen, KrebsOnSecurity reports that accessing it would be as easy as right-clicking on the page and clicking Inspect Element or View Source. Despite the fact that the outlet waited until the tool was taken down by the state to publish its story, the reporter has been called a “hacker” by Governor Parson, who says he’ll be getting the county prosecutor and investigators involved.Īccording to the Post-Dispatch, the tool that contained the vulnerability was designed to let the public see teachers’ credentials. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that it notified the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that one of its tools was returning HTML pages that contained employee SSNs, potentially putting the information of over 100,000 employees at risk. Missouri Governor Mike Parson is threatening legal action against a reporter and newspaper that found and responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability that left teacher and educational staffs’ social security numbers exposed and easily accessible.
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