Does Your Organization Have a Security.txt File?
Summary: Security.txt is a proposed Internet standard that places a file at a predictable location like example.com/.well-known/security.txt so organizations can list vulnerability disclosure policies and a contact email. At least eight percent of Fortune 100 companies have adopted it, including Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, HCA Healthcare, Kroger, Procter & Gamble, USAA and Walmart, though it is not yet an approved IETF standard.
What's compelling: Krebs reported stolen VPN credentials for a major clothing retailer and found no security.txt file, and his alert to the retailer's security@ address was returned as blocked, leaving him unsure whether anyone read his message to the CIO. Alex Holden of Hold Security noted that even attackers making ransom demands often have their messages caught in filters, deleted, blocked or ignored.
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