Another Irresponsible Vulnerability Disclosure

Recently, Immunity, a security consulting firm, published an advisory highlighting four security holes in Apple Computer's Mac OS X. Interestingly, advisory came for the vulnerabilities that the security company had known about for seven months but had kept to itself and its customers instead of disclosing the problem to Apple. This is another example of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, which is criticized by many software vendors, users, and industry practitioners. Read more. Another one on this.