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2018-02-08 | Fancy bears’ focus, Google’s $12M in bounty payouts, and Cyber Bureau to the rescue
Thursday, February 8
TOP STORY
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‘Fancy Bear’ hackers took aim at US defense contractors, and BREAKING NEWS (not really), Russians hacked voter registration rolls in several states prior to 2016 election.
HACKTIVITY
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Ability to bypass partner email confirmation to take over any store given an employee email [92 upvotes] - $15,000 bounty + $250 bonus for this report to Shopify by @itscachemoney.
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Unsafe Query Generation (CVE-2012-2660, CVE-2012-2694 and CVE-2013-0155) mitigation bypass [3 upvotes] - $1,500 bounty for this report to Ruby on Rails by @joernchen.
You can see all the latest and greatest disclosures and bounties on www.hackerone.com/hacktivity
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
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2017 saw a record number of exposed records (7.8 billion to be exact)
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And it shall be called “Cyber Bureau” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s re-org plan
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Google vulnerability reward program has paid out $12M to date ($2.9M in 2017)
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Active Cyber Defence: one year on: paper written by Dr Ian Levy, Technical Director of the NCSC, following a year of the Active Cyber Defence programme.
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