Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2019
Singapore has announced the third bug bounty program aimed at assessing the security of government systems exposed online. The government of Singapore has announced its third bug bounty program aimed at assessing the level of security implemented for government systems exposed online. The bug bounty program sees the involvement of the Cyber Security Agency of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2017
Bug bounty programs allowed the US agency to receive 2,837 valid bug reports from 650 white hat hackers located in 50 countries around the world. Bug bounty program ‘Hack the Pentagon’ launched by the Pentagon in 2016 along with the vulnerability disclosure policy announced nearly one year ago allowed the US agency to receive 2,837 valid bug reports […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2016
David Dworken is the name of the student that hacked into the Pentagon US military’s website between classes at Maret High School and that the Government thanked. Recently we have reported the first results of the “Hack the Pentagon” program that allowed the discovery of numerous flaws in the computers of the US Government. News […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ is the initiative launched by the US Government this year to test the resilience to cyber attacks of the US defenses. The Pentagon has launched the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2016
Google has issued a new security update for its Chrome 49 that patches a number of flaws, most of them discovered by external researchers. Google has updated Chrome 49 for all the available versions in order to patch several critical vulnerabilities, including the flaw discovered thanks its bounty program that were rewarded with dozen thousands of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2016
Hack the Pentagon – DoD would invite outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public US Defense Department resources as part of a pilot initiative. Which is the best way to discover security vulnerabilities affecting a computer system? Ask a group of hackers to test it. This is the concept behind a bounty program, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2016
The Antivirus firm Malwarebytes is spending a significant effort to fix serious vulnerabilities in its defense solution that was reported by the experts at the Googleâs Project Zero team. The Antivirus firm Malwarebytes is spending a significant effort to fix serious vulnerabilities in its defense solution that was reported by the experts at the Googleâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2016
A security researcher has discovered a serious XSS flaw that could have allowed attackers to take over usersâ Facebook accounts. The security expert Jack Whitton reported a critical XSS vulnerability to Facebook that could be exploited by hackers to take over users’ Facebook accounts. The researchers reported the flaw to Facebook in July 2015, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2015
The researcher who hacked Instagram claims he was threatened by Facebook after he responsibly reported a series of security issues. Every platform is potentially hackable, even the armored Facebook and Instagram and the independent security researcher Wesley Weinberg has demonstrated it. Of course, if the hackers ethically report the flaw to the company usually nothing happen, but the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
An Egyptian security researcher has discovered a critical flaw in Twitter platform which allows an attacker to delete credit cards from Any Twitter Account. The Egyptian Security Researcher, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela has discovered a critical vulnerability in Twitterâs advertising service that allowed an attacker to delete credit cards from any Twitter account. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela […]
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