Author

Casey Ellis

Hacker, founder, advisor, and pioneer of crowdsourced security. Founder of Bugcrowd, co-founder of disclose.io, principal of Tall Poppy Group. Board member at SRLDF.

Building

Bold When Others Are Cautious

I’ve probably spent too much time watching the stock exchange and the forex market over the past few days… What’s happening in the world economy at the moment is pretty m

By Casey Ellis · 29 Jan 2010
Building

Whatever Your Hand Finds to Do

Image via Wikipedia Here’s the thing… I would describe myself as someone who is continually pregnant with the plans and dreams and hopes I know God Himself has planted

By Casey Ellis · 28 Jan 2010
leadership

Keeping the Lights On

I’ve had moments over the past months, just like most other people I know, where I’ve “looked down” (i.e. think of the scene in Shrek where they are crossing the bridge a

By Casey Ellis · 27 Jan 2010
Building

Sticking with Plan A

Quick thought… I’m the kind of person who is very quick to start working out contingency plans if a dream, goal, task or venture or mine doesn’t seem to be panning out.

By Casey Ellis · 27 Jan 2010
Building

Picking an Idea

I often talk to people that are absolutely chomping at the bit to start their own business, and the number one pre-startup question I hear in conversation is this: What t

By Casey Ellis · 25 Jan 2010
Hot Takes

The Coin in the Mouth of the Fish

Matthew 17: 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax

By Casey Ellis · 24 Jan 2010
Thinking

Just Clearing Something up here... Nicotine Replacement Therapy

I’ve had a few funny responses from people I know personally to my Goals for 2010 post along the lines of: “Great goals – I had no idea you were a smoker though…” I sta

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jan 2010
Security

More on Skimming in Australia – Now an Official Epidemic

It turns out that a large percentage of recent fraud is being traced back to a single type of PIN pad: the Ingenico PX328. Here’s a piccy for you all… ![](http://iamtal

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jan 2010
Building

Skype Controls 12% of All International Calls

This is a repost from http://www.strategyeye.com/articles/digitalmedia/id/24649416. Interesting to watch this progress – the take-up of anti-monopoly solutions like Sky

By Casey Ellis · 19 Jan 2010
Security

What Are You Really Sharing

I’ve noticed a lot of people putting up quizzes on Facebook lately, I did one of my own as well (although I can’t seem to find it now…). I got to thinking the kind of inf

By Casey Ellis · 17 Jan 2010
Hot Takes

Race Relations — a Bloody Past

I just read a news article that has left me pretty unsettled… http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/aborigines-have-worst-life-expectancy-says-un/story-e6frfku0-12258199

By Casey Ellis · 14 Jan 2010