An infamous vigilante hacker known for their hits on surveillance companies is launching a new kind of bug bounty to reward hacktivists who do public interest hacks and leaks.
To be clear, this is basically a bug bounty that incentivizes criminal activity. Most bug bounty programs are run by companies to encourage security researchers to find bugs in their software that they can then patch to make their services safer. Other bug bounty programs are run by third-party companies like Zerodium , which pay hackers for bugs in software like iOS, Android, or Chrome that can then be re-sold to governments.
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A Look Inside Dallas' Growing Hacker Scene | KERA News
When you think of hackers, you might think of Silicon Valley. But did you know North Texas has its own vibrant community of hackers and cybersecurity enthusiasts?
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Earlier this month, dozens of people gathered at a Korean karaoke bar in Dallas but not to sing. It was a monthly meeting of the Dallas Hackers Association. They meet there monthly.
Thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts are already for sale on hacking forums | ZDNet
Hackers didn't waste any time and have started hijacking Disney+ user accounts hours after the service launched.
Many of these accounts are now being offered for free on hacking forums, or available for sale for prices varying from $3 to $11, a ZDNet investigation has discovered.
The Disney+ video streaming service launched this week, on November 12. The service, although being available only in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands, has already amassed more than 10 million customers in its first 24 hours.
WhatsApp bug allows hackers to plant malware using video files - HI-TECH NEWS - Jerusalem Post
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This App Knows If Your iPhone Has Been Hacked—Do You?
Finding security toolkits that work in a meaningful way on the iPhone is a bit like looking for a needle in a thousand haystacks. Apple has made it nigh on impossible for such apps to make it into the App Store, with rules regarding scanning of other apps and data front and center of the brick wall it has erected. So, is one new app the security needle that you've been looking for?
Not everyone is convinced iVerify will succeed, and some security app developers have expressed surprise that such an app has even made it into the App Store given the stringent rules Apple applies. It remains to be seen if either Apple's attitude has softened or Trail of Bits has managed to convince it that iVerify remains within the app guidelines.
This App Will Tell You if Your iPhone Gets Hacked - VICE
A few years ago, Dan Guido's partner couldn't log into her bank account via the bank's official iPhone app. The app kept alerting her that her phone was not secure.
"Being a security guy, I freaked out," said Guido, who is the founder of the cybersecurity research firm Trail of Bits.
The bank's app, it turned out, was designed to detect iPhone hacks, but the detection code was buggy and "total garbage," according to Guido. That's when he and his colleagues decided to create a better tool to detect iPhone jailbreaks and hacks.
China Sharpens Hacking to Hound Its Minorities, Far and Wide - The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — China's state-sponsored hackers have drastically changed how they operate over the last three years, substituting selectivity for what had been a scattershot approach to their targets and showing a new determination by Beijing to push its surveillance state beyond its borders.
The government has poured considerable resources into the change, which is part of a reorganization of the national People's Liberation Army that President Xi Jinping initiated in 2016, security researchers and intelligence officials said.
Company discovered it was hacked after a server ran out of free space | ZDNet
A Utah-based IT company found out it was hacked only after it received an alert about one of its servers running out of free disk space.
The hack impacted InfoTrax Systems, a US company based in Orem, Utah, that provides hosted applications for multi-level marketers (MLMs).
Companies rent access on InfoTrax servers so they can manage MLM operations, and store data on customers and employees, using InfoTrax's applications.
In 2016, the company announced a security breach during which a hacker stole the personal details of around one million users. Following tips that the company had failed to secure its servers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) started an investigation into the hack.
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The hacker known as Phineas Fisher published a manifesto on Friday offering to pay hackers up to $100,000 to carry… https://t.co/CnOziSA1bB KimZetter (from San Francisco) Sun Nov 17 15:49:53 +0000 2019
New: Infamous hacker Phineas Fisher offers $100,000 as a "Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program" for hacks against spyware… https://t.co/1AQzxQ6eeP lorenzofb (from 🇺🇸🇪🇸🇮🇹 lorenzofb@vice) Sun Nov 17 06:02:50 +0000 2019
ICYMI: Phineas Fisher is back and wants to pay $100,000 to hacktivists who can hack companies like NSO Group or Hal… https://t.co/E9kHLaUNQn lorenzofb (from 🇺🇸🇪🇸🇮🇹 lorenzofb@vice) Sun Nov 17 20:32:26 +0000 2019
Phineas Phisher isn't going to pop NSO Group, but he will pay you $100k in Bitcoin to do it. https://t.co/ptwq02rmrX evacide Mon Nov 18 00:27:23 +0000 2019
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