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The Intigriti Ethical Hacker Survey 2022 is now available, highlighting how ethical hacking continues to grow as a popular career choice for all levels of security experts. For the second year running, Intigriti has gone into the field and spoken to a wide range of respondents of all levels of experience working in the fast-moving world of ethical hacking, bug bounty programs, and beyond.

With this policy update, the DOJ is separating cases of good-faith security research from ill-intended hacking, which were previously distinguished by a blurred line that frequently placed ethical security research in a problematic, gray legal area. Under these new policies, software testing, investigation, security flaw analysis, and network breaches intended to promote the security and safety of the target devices or services are not to be prosecuted by federal prosecutors.

PECB offers the Certified Lead Ethical Hacker training course, which validates your ability to lawfully assess the security of a system, as well as identify and mitigate potential threats. The PECB Certified Lead Ethical Hacker exam comprises two parts: the practical exam and the report writing.

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Bugcrowd released a report which provides CIOs and CISOs valuable insight on ethical hackers and the economics of security research. This comprehensive annual study offers an in-depth look at ethical hackers to reveal how they reduce risk, which industries leverage their expertise most, and what organizations are doing to attract high-performing security researchers to their programs.

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Brough to you by cybersecurity researcher Kim Crawley and pentester and author Phillip L. Wylie, The Pentester Blueprint gives insights into the most common hurdles encountered by aspiring penetration testers, as well as tips on how to overcome them. The book starts by explaining what a pentester is, why they are beneficial to a company, and describes common pentesting methodologies.

The United States' Department of Defense has opened up all of its publicly facing systems and apps to investigation under a bug bounty program. The bug bounty system had only been aimed at websites but now Kristopher Johnson, director of its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, has said "Websites were only the beginning as they account for a fraction of our overall attack surface" and urged the infosec community to take a wider view.

In these 18 online training courses on ethical hacking, cybersecurity pros will teach you about creating projects with Python, bug bounty hunting, Kali Linux hacker tools and much more. The main job of ethical or white hat hackers is to study the ins and outs of networks and systems, identify potential security gaps and fix those issues.

Security researchers successfully hacked the United Nations, accessing user credentials and personally identifiable information-including more than 100,000 private employee and project records-before informing the U.N. about the problem through the organization's vulnerability disclosure program. Ethical hackers from the research group Sakura Samurai used a vulnerability in a GitHub directory that exposed WordPress DB and GitHub credentials, allowing access to numerous private records from the U.N.'s Environment Program.