Wednesday, September 20
TOP STORY
Spotify introduces Forseti: an open source security toolkit for Google Cloud Platform, developed in partnership with Google.
HACKTIVITY
Race Conditions in OAuth 2 API implementations [19 upvotes] - $2,500 bounty for this report to The Internet by @dor1s. Read and re-read. Impressive dedication by this hacker!
Unauthorized update of merchants' information via /php/merchant_details.php [10 upvotes] - $200 bounty for this report to Zomato by @nbsp.
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TWEET OF THE DAY
A good article about how the US government is gaining momentum on bug bounties & vulnerability disclosure policies - @mattcutts
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
Leading enterprise security blindspots survey results by Bitglass
Bug Bounty Forum, AMA with @geekboy
CVE worthy? iTerm2 feature “Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid’
HVACKer: Bridging the Air-Gap by Manipulating the Environment Temperature
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