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  • Level Up Your Bug Bounty Effectiveness, Part II: Operational Areas to Continuously Improve

    Level Up Your Bug Bounty Effectiveness, Part II: Operational Areas to Continuously Improve

    Hacker Engagement First impressions matter! Win hackers over early on and create “anchor” hackers - program stalwarts that learn all about the target organization and keep coming back to hack...

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  • Welcome to the HackerOne Ambassador World Cup 2023!

    Welcome to the HackerOne Ambassador World Cup 2023!

    The Ambassador World Cup 2023 is an eight-month-long, competition-driven way to build community engagement, collaboration, and ambassador brand awareness throughout the hacker community. The...

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  • Ambassador Spotlight: samux

    Ambassador Spotlight: samux

    What made you want to become an ambassador? I wanted to become an ambassador mainly because I wished to create a community to exchange information to help others enter the bug bounty space. The...

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  • Get Invited: How Live Hacking Event Invites Have Changed

    Get Invited: How Live Hacking Event Invites Have Changed

    HackerOne Live Hacking Events are back! We wrapped a tremendous year of events for 2022 where we saw some amazing success. Some of the most notable: Six customers partnered with us across five...

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  • HackerOne was Proud to Sponsor Bug Hunt!

    HackerOne was Proud to Sponsor Bug Hunt!

    First, a shout-out to the winners at Bug Hunt! Congratulations are in order for these dedicated hackers: 1st: n1ghtmar3_24212nd: Osrafi3rd: 0x_saikat What is Bug Hunt? This is a yearly event...

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  • Level Up Your Bug Bounty Effectiveness: 3 Keys to Launch a Successful Program

    Level Up Your Bug Bounty Effectiveness: 3 Keys to Launch a Successful Program

    With this two-part blog series, we will delve into strategies and tactics exhibited by dozens of enterprise customers over several years that will optimize the effectiveness of your bug bounty...

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  • What Does Belgium’s New Legal Framework On Hacking Mean For Me?

    What Does Belgium’s New Legal Framework On Hacking Mean For Me?

    The Belgian government has recently announced a new Belgian law that will allow ethical hackers to hack any Belgian company without any prior permission. Historically, ethical hacking codes of...

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  • Robinhood Goes Long on Bug Bounty: Q&A with Ian Carroll and @ashwarya

    Robinhood Goes Long on Bug Bounty: Q&A with Ian Carroll and @ashwarya

    Our conversation with Ian Carroll (Staff Security Engineer at Robinhood) spans the history of bug bounty at Robinhood, Ian’s approach to bug bounty program management, and why the hacker...

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  • The View from the Other Side: A Security Analyst's Perspective on Bug Bounty Triage

    The View from the Other Side: A Security Analyst's Perspective on Bug Bounty Triage

    I was always intrigued about how things work on the other side of bug bounty. Well, the month of June, 22 made that possible for me when I started my day one as a Product Security Analyst with...

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  • Blog: Outsmart Cybercriminals with Proactive Attack Surface Management (ASM)

    Blog: Outsmart Cybercriminals with Proactive Attack Surface Management (ASM)

    Why is ASM Important? Your attack surface is the sum of all entry points an attacker could use to access your systems, applications, devices, or network. For most organizations, it’s a complex...

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  • Hacker AFK: Rhynorater

    Hacker AFK: Rhynorater

    Today's hacker RhynoraterJXoaT: Where did you first hear about hacking? What was your first exposure to it? Rhynorater: So, my first exposure to hacking was actually my neighbor. When I was...

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  • Ambassador Spotlight: Encryptsaan123

    Ambassador Spotlight: Encryptsaan123

    What made you want to become an ambassador?  There are several reasons why I decided to become an ambassador at HackerOne. Firstly, I am passionate about ethical hacking and bug bounty. Being an...

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  • Beyond a VDP: How a Challenge Brings Proactive Security to Your Agency

    Beyond a VDP: How a Challenge Brings Proactive Security to Your Agency

    Vulnerability Disclosure Programs create an effective means for researchers and other users to report discovered vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Because federal agencies have a significant impact...

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  • Hacker AFK: InsiderPhD

    Hacker AFK: InsiderPhD

    Today's hacker InsiderPhDJXoaT: My first question is always, "What was your first experience with hacking?" What really opened the door to you?  InsiderPhD: I am a child of the '90s, and I...

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  • HackerOne Named a Leader in Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) GigaOm Radar Report

    HackerOne Named a Leader in Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) GigaOm Radar Report

    The report provides a technical evaluation of key PTaaS vendor offerings in the market. A select group of seven vendors were invited to participate in this evaluation. HackerOne is positioned as a...

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  • H1 Hackers Walk the Streets of Barcelona at H1-3493!

    H1 Hackers Walk the Streets of Barcelona at H1-3493!

    Live Hacking Events are the ultimate voyage for hackers selected to test their skills. This time our hackers had the chance to experience gothic architecture, historic streets, and a historic...

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  • How Human Security Testing Helps the U.S. Government’s Zero Trust Mandate

    How Human Security Testing Helps the U.S. Government’s Zero Trust Mandate

    One major reason for the progress is a May 2021 Executive Order that pushes federal agencies to speedily embrace the “never trust; always verify” cybersecurity paradigm of Zero Trust. As the 72%...

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  • Brand Ambassador Announcement

    Brand Ambassador Announcement

    2022 just came to an end. We hope you found plenty of bugs, collected a lot in bounties, and are ready to set goals for this new year. As we turn the page into a new year, we'd like to start with...

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  • Changes to Disclosure Assistance

    Changes to Disclosure Assistance

    HackerOne is excited to announce the revamp of our Disclosure Assistance program! Our goal is to reset expectations and realign with the hacker community. As such, you may see some of your...

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  • Visualizing Live Hacking Events: Hackers Break Records at H1-702

    Visualizing Live Hacking Events: Hackers Break Records at H1-702

    Checkout this infographic for a more detailed look at stats, hacker perspectives, and highlights of our event. Be sure to checkout all of our H@cktivityCon videos here.

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