Detectify collaborates with Crowdsource, our private network of ethical hackers to help our customers access the latest critical security research and secure their web apps. With a hot hack summer, we saw a lot of devastating breaches which casted a negative view onto hackers as criminals. At Detectify, we believe that hackers are our allies.

SHORT SUMMARY: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – In February 2021, Detectify co-founder and Crowdsource hacker Frans Rosén was looking for security bugs in Apple services. Noticing that many of Apple’s own apps store their data in public databases on Apple’s data storage framework CloudKit, Frans was curious to know if any specific apps’ data could be modified with access to the public CloudKit containers in which their data was stored. Long story short, they could.

This year’s RSA Conference was certainly a surprising one. There was an understandable focus, of course, on remote working security, alongside a relatively high number of presentations dealing with the issues of the moment – Kubernetes, the IoT, and the Biden administration’s plans for cybersecurity. In the midst of these headline presentations, it was easy to miss some of the less dramatic research, and even easier to miss its implications.

After being hit by a ransomware or phishing attack, it might be tempting for businesses to think the damage has been done and they can now focus on rebuilding. This is rarely the case. Research shows that 80% of organisations targeted by ransomware end up suffering another attack – and 46% are targeted by the same cybercriminals that hit them in the first place.

STOCKHOLM — Aug. 18, 2021 — Detectify , the SaaS security company powered by ethical hackers, today announced its partnership with Hackers for Change. The collaboration will equip non-profit organizations with the tools required to strengthen security and decrease the likelihood of cyber-attacks, supporting the mission of Hackers for Change to provide charities and nonprofits with industry-quality cybersecurity services at no cost.

Over the past five years, blockchain technology has gone mainstream. More and more investors, businesses and opportunistic hobbyists are filling their cryptocurrency wallets with crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In fact, the global user base of all cryptocurrencies increased by an estimated 190 percent between 2018 and 2020. There is undoubtedly money to be made, ushering newcomers into the world of blockchain.

The internet is an incredible tool for education. Unfortunately, not everyone uses it to better themselves or the world around them. There are plenty of opportunities to learn how to defraud, damage, and steal from organizations – so many in fact, that this open source of hacking knowledge is a new technology service industry in its own right: crime-as-a-service.

I built it – and hackers came It’s been an eventful 12 months. With people working from home, there’s been an over 40% surge in machines accessible from the internet running RDP, with RDP attacks up over 400%. 1 This site even has instructions for how to create more than one RDP instance on the same Windows 10 machine. 2 There are also these instructions for Windows 2016, that create a larger attack surface that by allowing multiple RDP connections into the same endpoint.

It has been reported that the hack that took down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States and led to fuel shortages across the whole of the East Coast was the result of a single compromised password that was leaked on the Dark Web through a data breach. On April 29th 2021, hackers gained access to the network of Colonial Pipeline Co. via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection that allowed the hacker remote access to the corporate network.