From arcades to Azure: Felix’s security research journey

When you talk with Felix, you quickly get the sense that he has always been propelled by curiosity and by a need for something that truly challenges him. Today, he is a successful independent security researcher who uncovers vulnerabilities across Microsoft cloud services. However, his path into...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: subfinder-2.10.1-1.fc43

Subfinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites. Designed as a passive framework to be useful for bug bounties and safe for penetration testing...

S3C2 SICP Summit 2025-06: Vulnerability Response Summit

Recent years have shown increased cyber attacks targeting less secure elements in the software supply chain and causing significant damage to businesses and organizations. The US and EU governments and industry are equally interested in enhancing software security, including supply chain and...

Meta Expands WhatsApp Security Research with New Proxy Tool and $4M in Bounties This Year

Meta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform's network protocol. The idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific...

Program Analysis for High-Value Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Techniques

A widespread belief in the blockchain security community is that automated techniques are only good for detecting shallow bugs, typically of small value. In this paper, we present the techniques and insights that have led us to repeatable success in automatically discovering high-value smart...

Google Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023

BleepingComputer has the details. Its $2M less than in 2022, but its still a lot. The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total tally since the programs launch in 2010 has reached $59 million. For Android, the worlds most popular and widely used mobile...

FirebaseExploiter - Vulnerability Discovery Tool That Discovers Firebase Database Which Are Open And Can Be Exploitable

FirebaseExploiter is a vulnerability discovery tool that discovers Firebase Database which are open and can be exploitable. Primarily built for mass hunting bug bounties and for penetration testing. Features Mass vulnerability scanning from list of hosts Custom JSON data in exploit.json to upload...

Opera’s Security team at Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2023

Security Opera’s Security team at Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2023 Share February 9th, 2023 Hello readers! If you follow our Security team’s Twitter account it’s here, by the way!, you’ll have noticed we were busy last week meeting cybersecurity enthusiasts and professionals at this year’s...

[Security Nation] James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Research

!\Security Nation\ James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Researchhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to James Kettle of PortSwigger. Their discussion includes research for new web-attack technique...

When disclosure goes wrong. People

My experience of vulnerability disclosure is that it is rarely as easy or simple as it could be. I had hoped that bug bounty programmes and vulnerability disclosure programmes VDPs would help matters. Broadly that doesn’t seem to be the case, often for unexpected reasons. It’s not all bad though...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: subfinder-2.5.2-3.fc36

Subfinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites. Designed as a passive framework to be useful for bug bounties and safe for penetration testing...

Apple's New "Lockdown Mode" Protects iPhone, iPad, and Mac Against Spyware

Apple on Wednesday announced it plans to introduce an enhanced security setting called Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura to safeguard high-risk users against "highly targeted cyberattacks." The "extreme, optional protection" feature, now available for preview in beta versions ...

HackerOne Fires Employee for Stealing Bug Reports, Collecting Bug Bounties

By Deeba Ahmed Bug bounty and vulnerability coordination platform HackerOne has fired an employee for using their position to access customers… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: HackerOne Fires Employee for Stealing Bug Reports, Collecting Bug Bounties...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: subfinder-2.5.2-2.fc36

Subfinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites. Designed as a passive framework to be useful for bug bounties and safe for penetration testing...

Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing. Where to Begin.

Looking at the employment landscape, it’s clear that prospects for landing cybersecurity positions are excellent and on the rise, but what about the commercial viability of that “grey side-gig”, ethical hacking and penetration testing? While the notion of “being bad to help the good people” is...

Organizations Face a ‘Losing Battle’ Against Vulnerabilities

After a banner year for vulnerabilities and cyberattacks in 2021, organizations believe they are fighting a “losing battle” against security vulnerabilities and threats, “despite the billions of dollars spent collectively on cybersecurity technology,” according to an annual security report from...

Google to Pay Hackers $31,337 for Exploiting Patched Linux Kernel Flaws

Google on Monday announced that it will pay security researchers to find exploits using vulnerabilities, previously remediated or otherwise, over the next three months as part of a new bug bounty program to improve the security of the Linux kernel. To that end, the company is expected to issue...

The Proliferation of Zero-days

The MIT Technology Review is reporting that 2021 is a blockbuster year for zero-day exploits: One contributing factor in the higher rate of reported zero-days is the rapid global proliferation of hacking tools. Powerful groups are all pouring heaps of cash into zero-days to use for themselves --...

A week in security (August 2 – August 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: RDP brute force attacks explained The 3 biggest threats reaching for your antivirus software’s off switch Zoom and gloom? Video comms org agrees to settle for $85m COVID-19 vaccine appointment system attacked in Italy Chrome casts away the padlock - is it good...

Last Week’s Security news: Cisco ASA, BIG-IQ, vSphere, Solaris, Dlink, iPhone %s, DarkRadiation, Google schema, John McAfee

Hello, today I want to experiment with a new format. I will be reading last weeks news from my @avleonovnews channel, which I found the most interesting. I do this mostly for myself, but if you like it too, then that would be great. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel and my Telegram...