TND, the native token of decentralized-finance (DeFi) protocol Tender.fi, fell by 34% before recovering on Tuesday after the platform was hit by a white hat hacker. The token, which trades mostly on …
Aurora pays $6M bug bounty to ethical security hacker through Immunefi
On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) bridging and scaling solution Aurora announced it had paid out a $6 million bounty to ethical security hacker pwning.eth, who discovered a critical vulnerability in the …
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Hackers as Global Private Contractors is a Pandora’s Box You Do Not Want to Open
In mid-September 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) fined three former National Security Agency (NSA) hackers who worked as service contractors for a United Arab Emirates (UAE) cybersecurity …
U.S. Agencies Must Adopt Vulnerability-Disclosure Policies by March 2021
A new CISA mandate requires US agencies to implement policies that deal with disclosing vulnerabilities by March of 2021. This will provide ethical hackers with clarified guidelines for submitting …
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Breach at Indian Airline Affects 1.2 Million Passengers
Indian airline SpiceJet has been hit by a cyberattack resulting in a massive data breach, exposing the personal information of over a million of its passengers. The computer system of the airline was …
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Kali Linux Adds ‘Undercover’ Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
Kali Linux is popular among ethical hackers and pen testers alike, commonly used by researchers and red teamers to perform security tests. Last week, Kali Linux released version 2019.4 to the public, …
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