GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement...

Steve Bannon, a $25M Border Wall Campaign, and a GoFundMe Gone Bad

We Build the Wall raised millions. Now the DOJ says its operators—including the former Trump aide—skimmed hundreds of thousands off the top...

Crowdsourced fraud and kickstarted scams

Crowdsourced funding opportunities via Kickstarter, Patreon, and GoFundMe have removed many structural roadblocks for people to access capital quickly and conveniently. But they’ve also lowered the barrier to entry for many very old scams. So how do you tell the difference between a great cause o...

gofundme.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.gofundme.com/blog/wp-includes/js/mediaelement/flashmediaelement.swf?jsinitfunctio%gn=alertOPENBUGBOUNTY Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 08.05.2017 Latest check for patch:| 08.05.2017 02:44 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Public...

Palestinian hacker, who hacked Zuckerberg’s Facebook account to be rewarded with $12,000

The Palestinian hacker 'Khalil Shreateh', who broke into the Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Timeline to expose a security lapse will be awarded nearly $12,000 but not from Facebook, it will come from an online crowdsourced campaign. The hacker initially used Facebook's whitehat disclosure program, a...