Security expert Guillaume Tena, who was last week ordered to pay a fine of 14,300 euros for breach of French copyright law after publishing information about security vulnerabilities in an anti-virus application, has already collected around half the money in donations after appealing for help on his Web site.
French security expert Guillaume Tena has lost an appeal and been fined in a closely watched case which could have widespread ramifications for the way security researchers publish information about flaws in products.
Researchers that reverse engineer software to discover programming flaws can no longer legally publish their findings in France after a court fined a security expert on Tuesday.
Tegam International, the French software developer that is suing a security researcher after he exploited vulnerabilities in the company's Viguard antivirus software, has defended its actions.
A French security researcher, who published exploit codes that could take advantage of bugs in an antivirus application, could be imprisoned for violation of copyright laws.
If you ran a software company and an independent security researcher contacted you with proof that your product contains security vulnerabilities, how would you react?
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