Belgium institutes nationwide vulnerability disclosure policy

New vulnerability reporting frameworks are now in place in Belgium, making it the fourth European country to give cybersecurity researchers a way to legally report software and hardware bugs to organizations and the government.

The Netherlands, France and Lithuania all have similar policies in place. Last year, the United States updated its own rules around vulnerability reporting in an effort to protect researchers who look for bugs with no plan to exploit them maliciously.

Belgium’s rules provide strict processes for …

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