Zilliqa Launches Public Bug Bounty Program
(This guest post was authored by Han Wen Chua, Zilliqa.) Zilliqa is the first public blockchain that has successfully implemented a sharded smart contract architecture. The trustless connections formed on Zilliqa’s blockchain are creating new ways of interacting and trading with each other, and we’ve only just begun unfolding its possibilities. Built with scalability in
[Guest Blog] The Difference Between Threats, Threat Actors, Vulnerabilities, and Risks
This blog first appeared on Daniel Miessler blog. There is a never-ending debate on the language around Threat Modeling. About three in four presentations you’ll see on the topic will mangle and conflate these terms in unholy ways. So what I want to do here is give what I believe to be the clearest
Get involved with SEEK’s $10K Bug Bounty Program
This blog first appeared on SEEK’s blog, and is authored by Julian Berton, SEEK security engineer. Cyber criminals from around the world are continuously finding new and i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶e̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ terrifying ways of breaking into websites that we rely on every day — stealing our personal information that is typically made public for the world to see!
ARK and Bugcrowd Go Hunting!
This post originally appeared on ARK’s blog. ARK is pleased to announce the acquisition of security and penetration testing services from Bugcrowd — the planet’s premier crowd sourced security platform! Highly skilled and trusted white hat hackers from all over the world will try to breach the ARK hull and attempt to expose vulnerabilities before they pose
[Guest Post] Mailgun Takes Its Bug Bounty Program Public
By: David Dobbins, Director of Engineering at Mailgun. Here at Mailgun, we’re in the business of providing developers and businesses a platform that allows them to send email how they see fit for their brand. When you’re handling massive quantities of email for major brands day in and day out, security is your first priority. Not
This guest post originally appeared on the Detectify blog. At this year’s Black Hat USA, we caught up with Grant McCracken, Sr. Manager of Solutions Architecture at Bugcrowd and asked him about his thoughts on crowdsourced security, the evolution of ethical hacking, and the security community. Photo of Grant McCracken, Sr. Manager of Solutions Architecture at Bugcrowd What’s
PureVPN Tasks Bugcrowd for Greater Assurance of User Security
This guest post was written by Umer Awan, the Head of Cyber Security & Emerging Threats @ PureVPN Security is default. There shouldn’t be any other way around it. Being at the helm of a VPN service that’s backed by the trust of more than 3 million users keeps me on the edge. It
Photobox Security Times the Power of the Crowd
This blog was written by Stu Hirst, Head Of Security Engineering, Photobox Group I’ve been a believer in the power of the bug bounty model since 2015 when I ran my first 2-week program with Bugcrowd. During that program the researchers found 149 vulnerabilities! Nearly 50 of which were valid and in scope. That was a
Blockport launches initiative to increase awareness around cyber-security within the crypto industry
This blog was written by Zowie Langdon, CTO of Blockport and originally appeared on the Blockport blog In an effort to maintain and continuously improve security on the Blockport platform, our team is happy to announce the launch of a ‘responsible disclosure program’. Apart from the safety benefits that this program provides for our exchange platform, we
