Hacktivism

HackerOne Hits $20M Paid Bounties, Shows Growing Importance of Ethical Hacking

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

HackerOne, the famous bug bounty platform, has reached $20 million in rewards handed out to white hats. This is great news, because it shows just how active ethical hackers [...]

Bug Bounty Programs, the Way to Turn Black Hats Into Ethical Hackers: Interview with Zerocopter’s Edwin van Andel

August 18, 2017 // 1 Comment

Bug bounty programs are spreading more and more nowadays, as companies try to get help from ethical hackers in fixing their security problems. Over the years, companies have [...]

Bug Bounty Programs – the Hacker Challenge that Will Increase Cybersecurity

August 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Cyber attacks are becoming more and more common these days, with hackers exploiting various vulnerabilities that had gone below the radar. Thankfully, however, bug bounty [...]

Zero Day Vulnerability Hoarding, a Liability for the World’s Cybersecurity

July 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

As much as programmers will try, there is no such thing as “absolutely safe” software out there; The reality is that, for the most part, they’re only safe [...]

Serious flaws in Google’s Nexus Phones

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

An exploit closed again, as Google has shut down a “high-severity” one in its Nexus 6 and 6P phones. The vulnerability allowed attackers to listen to [...]

Wannabe Hackers Are Willing to Pay To Learn How To Use the Mirai Botnet

December 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Around two months ago, a hacker called Anna-senpai published the source code of a piece of malware designed to automatically scan the internet and infect easy-to-hack devices [...]

Hackers Are Trading Hundreds of Thousands of xHamster Porn Account Details

November 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hundreds of thousands of user account details for porn site xHamster are being traded on the digital underground. The database of nearly 380,000 users, provided to [...]

US election recounts campaign—citing hack attacks—raises $3M in one day [Updated]

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Jill Stein seeks “election integrity” in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Update, November 24: As of 10am EST on Thursday, Stein’s campaign had raised [...]

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers' Private Data at risk

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Three, one of UK’s biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of [...]

Hackers Threaten Release of Atlanta Professional Athletes’ Medical Data

November 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

A group of hackers is continuing its extortion campaign against US medical centers and organizations. Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced the [...]