Comment on Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price

ghostpony@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• virku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Europe this would be a hard to explain breach of GDPR. Which could result in some hefty fines. Especially if it is a vulnerability they knew about but chose to wait.

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are they in Europe? My guess is no.

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    • kurushimi@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure, but the point is to bring additional awareness to how consumer-backing laws with actual teeth can bring about positive change, and perhaps to motivate citizens to support similar legislation and legislators who would write it.

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  • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the real world, fines are a cost carried to the customer. So even with GDPR, the customer is still the loser in the situation.

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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not in the EU. Fines can actually hurt here

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      • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So fines come with a requirement that a company can’t raise prices to recoup them?

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s a bullshit headline all the way around. They may have waited like 9 days to patch it, but the exploit had been shown to be on their system (and many other companies) for several months. Essentially, the extra 9 days after the vulnerability was discovered and a patch existed wouldn’t have mattered much for anything. Ship already long since sailed.

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