The white hat hacking competition Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has revealed 63 zero-day flaws, that were there to be exploited by black hat hackers if they found them first, and collected nearly a million dollars in bounties: Hackers earn $989,750 for 63 zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Toronto (bleepingcomputer.com) A good news …
Because It’s Friday – Happy International Coffee Day
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy International Coffee Day, for tomorrow. It’s a real thing, I have not dreamed it: International Coffee Day – Wikipedia Here is why coffee always generates good ideas and the solution to many an IT or cyber security job: Wally’s Coffee …
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High School Prank – Are you still using default passwords?
It was a prank, but it was also serious hacking. The only thing that stopped it being a criminal case was that the school IT support had not reset default passwords and if they did they used the example password in the manual and that the hackers acted in a …
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The Feds are not impressed
Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad recently lost nearly $200 million to a cyber attack. Now they are offering the threat actors 90/10 split on the loot, for the return of 90% and not prosecution – Nomad will treat it as bug bounty for finding the flaw. Nomad are referring to the threat …
Bug bounties being offered by the Pentagon
Bug bounties are a useful way for vendors – and now government departments – to engage with honest, white hat, cyber security experts, to test systems for flaws. DoD issues call for hackers to dig into networks – The Record by Recorded Future
