Collaborate Disseminate
“You work in tech! Wow, you must be so smart. I wish I was that smart. I’m just not smart enough to work in tech.”
That’s what I used to say to people when I would get asked why I wasn’t in the same field and making the same mon… Continue reading I’m Just Not Smart Enough to Work in Tech
It’s bad enough losing an hour’s work when your computer crashes – but in settings like healthcare and aviation, software glitches can have far more serious consequences. In one notorious case, a computer bug caused cancer patients to receive lethal ov… Continue reading Researchers working on tools that aim to eliminate computer bugs
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Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! April 2019
The Internet has an Auto-Immune Problem! It affects everyone on the planet, whether they’ve been the victim of a cyber-attack directly or not. Even those who have ne… Continue reading Video: Safe Harbor for Hackers
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The Internet has an Auto-Immune Problem! Members of the InfoSec industry need to lead the way in providing a global environment that encourages responsible security research to protect both the ethical hac… Continue reading Webinar: Safe Harbor for Hackers
The “Whitehat” settings will help researchers to analyze network traffic from its mobile apps by dialling back security settings. Continue reading Facebook’s Whitehat Settings lets bug-hunters dial back app security
Rewards on 15 bug bounty programs start at $28,600 and include open source software such as KeePass, FileZilla, Drupal and VLC media player. Continue reading EU to offer nearly $1m in bug bounties for open-source software
Details of a Virtual Box 0-day privilege escalation bug were disclosed on GitHub earlier this week. This was the work of independent Russian security researcher Sergey Zelenyuk, who revealed the vulnerability without any vendor coordination as a form o… Continue reading Infosec Problems For 2019 and Beyond: Patching, Bug Bounties and Hype
Register Now and Learn IoT Hacking Step-by-Step! Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the people behind the IoT Villages of DEF CON, RSA, DerbyCon and more, will showcase live demos of hacking IoT devices, the methodology for repeatable success and c… Continue reading Webinar: Basics of IoT Hacking for the Career Pen Tester on Sept 27 2018
Dubai-based Crowdfense, which buys zero day exploits for iOS and a variety of other platforms, is trying to streamline the process of sourcing vulnerabilities. Continue reading Zero-Day Shop Opens the Floodgates for People to Sell Exploits to Governments
A group of New York University researchers are testing a new approach to software security: adding more bugs to it instead of removing them. The idea is to “drown attackers in a sea of enticing-looking but ultimately non-exploitable bugs” a… Continue reading Should we add bugs to software to put off attackers?