With more than 40,000 information security professionals in one place, many of them with a passion for hacking, RSA and its 2018 conference systems were likely to get poked and prodded.
Digitally speaking.
And that is exactly what happened when @svblxyz figured out how to get the RSA Conference App (which I really enjoyed using) to reveal attendee names. He limited his query to 100 and tweeted just the first names to prove his point:
RSA Conference organizers jumped on the issue quickly—both the app issue and the resulting social media flareup.
And @svblxyz, who discovered the vulnerability, responded:
This is not the first time RSA has been called out for cybersecurity issues at its conferences around the world.
But RSA's rapid response in this case is certainly something those in InfoSec can respect.