His development company Keeper password manager found once more not to be so interested in safety. This time, he was using a server that allowed anyone to access and replace files with malicious content, according to a security researcher.
Chris Vickery, who discovered the exposed server, immediately alerted ZDNet, who attempted to contact Keeper via phone and email on Friday. An hour after disclosure, the server was secured.
However, the director of Aaron Gessner refused any allegations.
The Chicago-based company has a storage server on Amazon S3 to host installers for its various supported platforms.
However, the server was not password protected and gave access to anyone and "full control" of its contents (reading, replacing and deleting files).
Many of the files included installers for Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone. A file on the server had a private signing certificate code published by Apple. The certificate can be used to sign the company's iPhone apps, and was issued to Callpod Inc., a company founded by Keeper chief Darren Guccione.
Of course a skilled attacker could replace a legitimate one program iPhone or iPad installation with a malicious file.
Let's say the Keeper application developer recently sued her security researcher Ars Technica, And Goodin, because he published a vulnerability he discovered in the preletterbrowsing the Keeper password manager.
Although the company confirmed the vulnerability, it filed a lawsuit against Goodin for allegedly making "false and misleading statements about the Keeper application."
The news provoked many reactions in the security community, which criticized the company's response. Many high-level researchers and known community figures argued that such an action would likely have bad results in future security investigations and vulnerabilities.