Security News

Facebook’s Whitehat Settings lets bug-hunters dial back app security
2019-03-27 14:17

The "Whitehat" settings will help researchers to analyze network traffic from its mobile apps by dialling back security settings.

Meet the new generation of white hats
2019-03-18 06:45

The past two years have seen an explosion in the number of software vulnerabilities being published, jumping from 6,447 in 2016 to 14,714 in 2017. Seeing as 2018 beat out the previous year with...

NTT Acquires WhiteHat Security
2019-03-06 13:43

NTT Security, the cybersecurity company of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) on Tuesday announced that it has entered a definitive agreement...

NTT Security Corporation acquires WhiteHat Security
2019-03-06 08:17

NTT Security has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-owned WhiteHat Security, the leading application security provider committed to securing applications that run enterprises’...

Two White Hats Earn Over $1 Million via Bug Bounty Programs
2019-03-01 16:17

Bug bounty platform HackerOne says two of its members have each earned more than $1 million by helping organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in their systems. read more

Intel SGX 'safe' room easily trashed by white-hat hacking marauders: Enclave malware demo'd
2019-02-12 02:17

Rather handy for smuggling expensive zero-days onto targets and executing them Security researchers have found that Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) don't live up to their name. In fact,...

WhiteHat Security Launches New Software Testing Products
2019-01-23 16:05

Application security firm WhiteHat Security on Tuesday announced the general availability of a new product line designed to help organizations conduct comprehensive code analysis. read more

WhiteHat Security launches Essentials product line for security testing with code coverage
2019-01-23 04:00

WhiteHat Security released its new ‘Essentials’ product line, with the launch of two solutions: Sentinel Source Essentials Edition and Sentinel SCA Essentials Edition. The streamlined ‘Essentials’...

15 skills you need to be a whitehat hacker and make up to $145K per year
2018-12-13 16:12

Aspiring hackers and cybersecurity pros are joining the ethical hacking community to earn extra cash, according to Bugcrowd.

UK white hats blacklisted by Cisco Talos after smart security code stumbles
2018-12-13 07:01

Cisco gracefully says it won't charge for the privilege UK security training company Hacker House briefly had its site blocked after being mistaken for malware by Cisco's security wing Talos'...