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In March 2016, Moussouris was directly involved in creating the Department of Defense's "Hack the Pentagon" pilot program, organized and vetted by HackerOne. [21] It was the first bug bounty program in the history of the US federal government. [22] Moussouris followed up the Pentagon program with "Hack the Air Force".
A bug bounty program is a deal offered by many websites, organizations, and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation [1] [2] for reporting bugs, especially those pertaining to security exploits and vulnerabilities.
Here’s how to get started as a bug bounty hunter: Read the program details . Create an account with OpenAI’s partner, Bugcrowd, Inc., a bug bounty platform.
HackerOne Inc. is a company specializing in cybersecurity, specifically attack resistance management, which blends the security expertise of ethical hackers with asset discovery, continuous assessment, and process enhancement to find and close gaps in the digital attack surface. [1]
security.txt is an accepted standard for website security information that allows security researchers to report security vulnerabilities easily. [1] The standard prescribes a text file named security.txt in the well known location, similar in syntax to robots.txt but intended to be machine- and human-readable, for those wishing to contact a website's owner about security issues.
A bounty is a payment or reward of money to locate, capture or kill an outlaw or a wanted person. Two modern examples of bounties are the ones placed for the capture of Saddam Hussein and his sons by the United States government [1] and Microsoft's bounty for computer virus creators. [2]
[1] [2] [3] It was founded in 2012, and in 2019 it was one of the largest bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure companies on the internet. [4] Bugcrowd runs bug bounty programs and also offers a range of penetration testing services it refers to as "Penetration Testing as a Service" (PTaaS), as well as attack surface management. [5] [6] [7]
The greatest AOL hack program ever written, Lucifer-X by NailZ, is released. In a matter of days AOL is being used for free by hundreds of thousands of users. A 16-year-old Croatian youth penetrates computers at a U.S. Air Force base in Guam. [45] June: Eligible Receiver 97 tests the American government's readiness against cyberattacks.