Hacktivity can save your company. Take help from hackers. You can’t do it alone. Approach hackers with an assumption of benevolence, and develop relationships with them. Don’t find out about a vulnerability for the first time on Twitter. How do you defend yourself against people who get up in the Continue Reading
Say Hello to [email protected] San Francisco 2018!- Tempemail
The annual hacker-powered security conference, [email protected] San Francisco, is now open for registration! The one day event will take place on October 24, 2018 and gather the largest community of industry influencers, public and private sector leaders from some of the most advanced security teams, and hackers from all over Continue Reading
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model: 3 Areas of Improvement to Make Today Part 3: Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting in AWS- Tempemail
In the last two parts of this series, we discussed the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. We started with keeping your private keys private and then moved onto wise use of network infrastructure. In this post, we’ll discuss what happens when something goes wrong. What capabilities does AWS give you to Continue Reading
The U.S. Marine Corps Resolves Nearly 150 Vulnerabilities Thanks to Hackers- Tempemail
“I think we found something good,” said hackers @sumlac, @teknogeek, and @johnny said to a member of the MARFORCYBER team at the kickoff live hacking event on August 12, 2018 in Las Vegas for Hack the Marine Corps. The Marine peered over his shoulder as @sumlac and his fellow hackers split Continue Reading
Say Yes To Cyber Help- Tempemail
In 2016, the DoD said Yes to cyber help by launching the Hack the Pentagon program. It took 13 minutes for them to receive their first critical vulnerability report from a hacker. In the following two years, hackers detected over 5,000 security vulnerabilities that otherwise could have been exploited by Continue Reading
The Paranoids at Oath Take Bug Bounties to Argentina: h1-5411 Recap- Tempemail
For the first time, HackerOne kicked off fall by migrating south. Way south. All the way to Buenos Aires, Argentina! Oath, a media and tech company, under which Yahoo, AOL, Verizon Digital Media Services, TechCrunch and many more dynamic brands fall, welcomed over 50 hackers in their third live hacking Continue Reading
The Best is Yet To Come: DOD Awards New Hack the Pentagon Contract to HackerOne- Tempemail
Today we celebrate cyber defense. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Digital Service (DDS) announced expansion of the Hack the Pentagon crowdsourced security program and partnership with HackerOne. HackerOne is one of three vendors to be awarded a contract as part of the Hack the Pentagon expansion to run private Continue Reading
Twitter is toxic. An institution of the BBC’s calibre doesn’t need it | Jonathan Maitland | Media- Tempemail
There was an irony to Huw Edwards’s defence of the BBC last week. You could argue the very act of him speaking out, feistily claiming the BBC wasn’t biased, proved quite the opposite. Corporation rules on bias expressly forbid its journalists from expressing opinions on controversial political matters. Yet here Continue Reading
Financial Services: Tips for Bug Bounty Success- Tempemail
In our recent webinar, “Bug Bounty Programs: Lessons Learned From Implementation In The Financial Service Industry”, we heard some great tips from an appsec leader at one of the world’s largest financial services companies. Jason Pubal, director of application security at this large firm, talked about his work over the Continue Reading
What To Do When You’re Stuck Hacking- Tempemail
Hacking can be tedious work. Sometimes you’ve been looking for hours, perhaps days, and you’re unable to find a security vulnerability. It can be demotivating at times. This blog will give you multiple tips to power through it and regain that sweet, sweet feeling of submitting a security vulnerability. This feeling Continue Reading