Researcher finally gets his security warning heard

When executives and security leaders at Microsoft and Amazon were told about vulnerabilities related to the two companies' Web sites, the security warnings went unheeded and ignored. So the researcher who discovered the flaws took his message to the Web and guess what? Microsoft is working on patching the cross-site scripting vulnerability and Amazon is working to fix the bugs related to its retailing site.

For more on getting the security message across:
- read this article from IDG