Hacktivism

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

August 30, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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