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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
Security

Are you making a Walkman? Or an iPod?

When the walkman was introduced, it created a category. It's brand also became the term of description for that category.

29 Sep 2020 · 3 min read
Building

NIST SP 800-53 R5 adds Vulnerability Disclosure Programs

NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 is yet another step towards the legitimization of the Internet’s Immune System. Everyone who has worked on legitimizing the work of good-faith hackers for the past 30 years or more can feel encouraged by this release.

28 Sep 2020 · 4 min read