The developer of Keeper Password manager found once more not to care so much about her better safety. This time, he was using a server that allowed anyone to access and replace archives 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.
But the server was not password protected access and gave access to anyone and "full control" over its content, (reading, replacing and deleting files).
Many of the files included installation files for Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. A file on the server had a private signature certificate issued by Apple. The certificate can be used to sign the company's iPhone applications, and was issued to Callpod Inc., a company founded by Keeper CEO Darren Guccione.
Naturally, a specialized attacker could replace a legitimate iPhone or iPad install program with a malicious file.
Let's say the Keeper application developer recently sued the Ars Technica security researcher, And Goodin, because he published a vulnerability he discovered in the program's extension tourof 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.