The Take Command Summit: A Stacked Agenda, and Killer Guest Speakers Coming Your Way May 21

By now you should have heard about Take Command, Rapid7’s day-long virtual summit on May 21 bringing together some of the best minds in the cybersecurity sphere for comprehensive discussions on the latest data, challenges, and opportunities in the industry. It’s an opportunity to expand your...

Zerocopter Debuts First Hacker-Led Cybersecurity Marketplace

By Deeba Ahmed Cybersecurity firm Zerocopter has launched the first-ever Cybersecurity Marketplace led by white-hat hackers. With cybercrime projected to cost… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zerocopter Debuts First Hacker-Led Cybersecurity Marketplace...

App Flaw Allowed Honda and Nissan Cars Hack by Knowing VIN number

By Habiba Rashid According to white hat hacker Sam Curry, once exploited, attackers could use the flaw to unlock the door, honk the horn, flash the lights, or even start the vehicle. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: App Flaw Allowed Honda and Nissan Cars Hack by Knowing VI...

White Hat Hacker at DefCon Jaikbreaks Tractor to Play Doom

By Waqas The hacker "Sick Codes" managed to jailbreak the display/control unit of one of the John Deere Tractor models… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: White Hat Hacker at DefCon Jaikbreaks Tractor to Play Doom...

GSD-2022-1004953 DNS hijack in Smart contract version website serving smartcontract on 2022-08-09

The curve.finance web site was DNS hijacked on 2022-08-09 and a new smart contract that drains victims wallets if accepted is being served. Previously the DNS was registered through GoDaddy. The attack was partially mitigated through a white hat hacker that executed a SYN flooding attack against...

Get to Know Steve Povolny

Meet Steve Povolny Head of Advanced Threat Research for Trellix Threat Labs By Michael Alicea · May 17, 2022 At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. This week, I sat down with Steve Povolny, Head of Advanced Threat Research for Trellix Threat Labs. As he is one of the leading...

Improve Your Hacking Skills with 9 Python Courses for Just $39

For anyone with interest in cybersecurity, learning Python is a must. The language is used extensively in white hat hacking, and professionals use Python scripts to automate tests. It also has a use in the "soft" side of cybersecurity — like scraping the web for compromised data and detecting bug...

Multichain hack: Hacker returns $1 million, keeps $150k as bug bounty

By Deeba Ahmed The hacker turned out to be a "white hat" decided to return most of the stolen funds but… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Multichain hack: Hacker returns $1 million, keeps $150k as bug bounty...

How to Buy Precious Patching Time as Log4j Exploits Fly

Sure, Apache got a patch out fast when the Log4j logging library vulnerability – aka Javageddon or “up there with Shellshock” – exploded last week. But emergency patches take days best-case scenario or weeks to install: plenty of time for attackers to do their worst. Which they lickety-split did,...

What is a White Hat Hacker❓ | Ethical Hackers

Introduction White Hat programmers or hackers are individuals that do security assessments as a component of a business course of action. Albeit this idea is helpful in many cases, it has no legitimate or moral ramifications. When differentiated to the meaning of Black Hat, this nonappearance...

Fuzz Off: How to Shake Up Code to Get It Right – Podcast

LAS VEGAS – In 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL. Within days, the advanced black-box software technique led to an exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSL: namely, the Heartbleed vulnerability. What is fuzzing? That’s what the FuzzCon event is all...

Zoom zero-day discovery makes calls safer, hackers $200,000 richer

Two Dutch white-hat security specialists entered the annual computer hacking contest Pwn2Own, managed to find a Remote Code Execution RCE flaw in Zoom and are $200,000 USD better off than they were before. Pwn2Own Pwn2Own is a high profile event organized by the Zero Day Initiative that challenge...

Become a White Hat Hacker — Get 10 Top-Rated Courses at 97% OFF

Many of us here would love to turn hacking into a full-time career. To make that dream come true, you need to master your subject and earn some key certifications. To speed up this process, you might want to take a little guidance from the experts. Featuring 98 hours of content from top...

Become a White Hat Hacker — Get 10 Top-Rated Courses at 97% OFF

Many of us here would love to turn hacking into a full-time career. To make that dream come true, you need to master your subject and earn some key certifications. To speed up this process, you might want to take a little guidance from the experts. Featuring 98 hours of content from top...

Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Others Hacked at Tianfu Cup Competition

Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. "Many mature and hard targets have bee...

Researchers Found 55 Flaws in Apple's Corporate Network

The company has patched the vulnerabilities and paid the team of white-hat hackers $288,000...

What Programming Languages Do Ethical Hackers Use?

By Owais Sultan Ethical hacking is when hacking is done for good reasons - The people behind ethical hacking are ethical hackers or white hat hackers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: What Programming Languages Do Ethical Hackers Use?...

White hat hacker infects smart coffee machine with ransowmare

By Waqas Avast security researcher reverse-engineered an IoT coffee machine to upload ransomware and mine Monero coin. Smart appliances have always remained a risky option for consumers, specifically when it comes to coffee machines. Back in 2015, Pen Test Partners researchers discovered security...

Critical GitLab Flaw Earns Bounty Hunter $20K

A critical GitLab vulnerability, which could be leveraged by a remote attacker to execute code, recently netted a researcher a $20,000 bug-bounty award. The flaw was reported to GitLab by software developer William Bowling via the HackerOne bug bounty platform on March 23. It was then disclosed...

GitLab Doles Out Half a Million Bucks to White Hats

GitLab has awarded a total of $565,650 in security bug bounties to 171 researchers who reported valid vulnerabilities in the past year — and has announced the winners of its latest hacking contest. GitLab, which started out as a web-based Git repository manager before moving into the DevOps...