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2020 Lernings for Make Benefit Glorious Year of 2021

My family and I are straight-up blessed with how we've fared this year, and I'm incredibly thankful for the myriad of people and things - but whichever way you cut it, 2020 was a dense and challenging year and not one I’d rush to repeat.

31 Dec 2020 · 1 min read
Security

Van Buren v. United States — Oral Argument

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Van Buren v. United States, a case concerning a statute of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and violations of terms of service agreements.

01 Dec 2020 · 41 min read
Policy

DEF CON endorsed by POTUS!

Great news everyone: After years of steady work and deliberate improvement of relationships and trust between the hacker community and government officials, we've made it to the apex of the American org chart!

14 Nov 2020 · 6 min read
Security

Krebs Has A Posse

14 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
Building

How the Pandemic is Reshaping the Bug Bounty Landscape

Bugcrowd Founder Casey Ellis talks about COVID-19’s impact on bug bounty hunters, bug bounty program adoption and more.

28 Oct 2020 · 2 min read
Personal

The Third-Quarter

"I'm exactly the same as I was nine months ago, but I'm also completely different."

25 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
Policy

VentureBeat: How ethical hackers are trying to protect the 2020 U.S. elections

“All software is vulnerable,” Bugcrowd CTO Casey Ellis said. “It just depends on how long you’re taking to look to find those vulnerabilities. Humans write code, and humans make mistakes.”

23 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
Thinking

Data is the new oil: Breach edition

Data is the new oil... It spills everywhere, trashes the environment, and is impossible to clean up. Think before you store.

07 Oct 2020 ·
Building

Cyber Talk Episode 14 w/ Pratik Dabhi

Cyber Talk EP14 - Casey Ellis talks about entrepreneurship, motivation, cybersecurity & @Bugcrowd

06 Oct 2020 · 15 min read
Security

Vulnerability annihilation since 1851

"What Hobbs had in mind was not the usual cajoling of a provincial bank into an upgrade, but exposing weaknesses in the British Empire itself by revealing the faults of one of Day and Newell’s competitors."

05 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
Policy

Iowa launches vulnerability disclosure program for election-related sites

The State of Iowa has partnered with Bugcrowd to launch a vulnerability disclosure program on election infrastructure.

01 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
Security

Information Asymmetry and the 1950s Nuclear Bounty

Props to Matt Ploessel for calling out this one... I'd not heard of a bounty around nuclear weapons until today.

29 Sep 2020 · 3 min read