Last week, Google announced a bug bounty reward of $1 million to anyone who could carry out a full chain remote code execution exploit on the Titan M secure chip within Pixel devices (this comes shortly after Apple launched its…
In early February, the Swiss government issued a reward for hacking its new electronic voting system. In just one short month, Motherboard has reported that a group of researchers have found a critical flaw in the code that would allow…
Closing out from RSA this week, where nearly every cyber company was pulling out all the stops, we couldn’t help but notice the extra light shed and proactive efforts made around diversity. In lead up to the conference, the San…
If you’re reading this article, statistically speaking your organization might be getting hacked. In the private sector, the Equifax hack and Intel’s processor vulnerabilities took the mainstream media by storm. And over the past year, data breaches of U.S. government networks, once novel, have…
IoT security is one of the greatest challenges we face today. Gartner predicts there will be 25 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connecting the world by 2021. And yet, IoT has gone unregulated and largely unsecured to date. That,…
Since 2013, Bugcrowd has maintained “The List” -- a directory of public bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs. What started out as a crowdsourced blog post, has evolved to become the defacto resource for people looking for bug bounty and…
Australia’s disaster alert system was targeted by cyber attackers this week, gaining access to the country’s early warning network (EWN) and sending out false emergency texts, emails and landline messages across Australia. ITPro reported that the EWN staff were quick…
Happy New Year and welcome to the first 2019 edition of Bug Bytes. In Australia, ABC News reported that 30,000 Victorian public servants had their work details stolen when the Victorian Government directory was downloaded by an unknown party. According…
That’s all for this week’s edition of Bug Bytes. Tune in next week for another recap of the week’s cyber security news. On Thursday, Reuters reported that hackers working on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security had breached the…
Top FBI official warns of strategic threat from China through economic and other forms of espionage, the Washington Post reported this week. A senior FBI official on Wednesday said that Chinese economic espionage as well as efforts to steal U.S.…
