Hackers invited to break into US voting machines to find election vulnerabilities

Tens of thousands of hackers from around the world were granted access to US voting machines at the Def Con convention in Las Vegas and tested them for hours to find vulnerabilities. On Friday, Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas was packed with hackers from around the world, where they studied and practiced hacking everything from […]

Pakistan’s old economic vulnerabilities persist

THE IMF, claims Pakistan’s government, is surplus to requirements. Ministers in its business-minded ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), boast of a record that means the country can pay its own bills. “We will not go back to the IMF programme,” declared Ishaq Dar, the finance minister, in May, almost a year after the […]

Bug bounty platform HackerOne raises $40 million to help companies identify vulnerabilities

HackerOne, a vulnerability identification platform that helps connect security-conscious businesses with bug hunters, has raised $ 40 million in a Series C round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Founded out of San Francisco in 2012, HackerOne helps companies identify weaknesses in their online systems through offering cash incentives to security researchers, the idea being that […]