Bug Bounty First Three Months: How Self-Taught Hackers Get Paid Fast
Bug Bounty First Three Months: How Self-Taught Hackers Get Paid Fast Self-taught hackers turn their first three months of bug bounty hunting into thousands of dollars. They go from “complete beginner watching YouTube” to “getting paid by major tech companies” in one quarter. These stories are messy and exhausting, but they follow a pattern you […]
Project Chanology: How a Tom Cruise Video Sparked a Digital Revolution
Project Chanology: How a Tom Cruise Video Sparked a Digital Revolution In January 2008, something changed on the internet. Anonymous went from trolls on 4chan to a global political force. The catalyst? A leaked Tom Cruise video and the Church of Scientology’s attempt to scrub it from the web. This conflict birthed modern hacktivism. It […]
The 11-Year-Old Who Hacked an Election and Then Built a Movement for Girls
The 11-Year-Old Who Hacked an Election and Then Built a Movement for Girls DEF CON 26 in Las Vegas. Thousands of elite security professionals filled the dimly lit halls. An 11-year-old girl in a t-shirt reading “Time for hacking to be done” sat down at a computer. Her target: a replica state election website. Minutes […]
Sebastian “Gehaxelt” Neef: From Teenage Hacker to Security Researcher
Sebastian “Gehaxelt” Neef: From Teenage Hacker to Security Researcher The best security researchers don’t start with a plan. They start with curiosity. Sebastian Neef, known online as “Gehaxelt,” turned teenage fascination into a career exposing critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and building tools used by thousands of security professionals. How It Started: Gaming Bots and Web Security […]
Pwned by the Owner: When a Hacker Tracks Down His Stolen Computer
Pwned by the Owner: When a Hacker Tracks Down His Stolen Computer Someone stole the wrong computer. Back in 2008, a burglar broke into a Boston apartment through a second-floor window. They grabbed a Mac G4 Quicksilver desktop and two backup drives. The owner was Zoz, a hacker and co-host of the TV show Prototype […]
When Medicine Meets Hacking: The Dr. Benoit Desjardins Story
When Medicine Meets Hacking: The Dr. Benoit Desjardins Story Dr. Benoit Desjardins spent decades saving lives as a radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Then he decided to learn how to break into computer systems. This was not a mid-life crisis. This was a calculated career pivot that would make him one of the most […]
Digital Warriors of the Arab Spring: How Hacktivists Empowered Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt
Digital Warriors of the Arab Spring: How Hacktivists Empowered Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on December 17, 2010. The 26 year old Tunisian street vendor did this to protest police harassment and government corruption. His death on January 4, 2011, sparked nationwide protests that toppled two authoritarian regimes. International […]
How White Hat Hackers Strengthen Global Cybersecurity
How White Hat Hackers Strengthen Global Cybersecurity You hear about famous hackers like Kevin Mitnick and Robert Tappan Morris all the time. But the real backbone of modern digital defense comes from somewhere else. The white hat hacking community protects billions of users worldwide. These security researchers range from self-taught enthusiasts to seasoned professionals. They […]
From Air Force to Cloud Security
From Air Force to Cloud Security: How Veteran Chris Hughes Built a Company Securing America’s Digital Future Chris Hughes took his Air Force service and turned it into a cybersecurity career protecting federal systems. His path shows how military experience translates directly into defending national security in the digital age. The Military Foundation Hughes served […]
The Samy Worm: How a 19 Year Old Crashed MySpace with 4KB of Code
The Samy Worm: How a 19 Year Old Crashed MySpace with 4KB of Code On October 4, 2005, Samy Kamkar released one of the most legendary hacks in internet history. He was 19 years old. His worm infected over one million MySpace users in 20 hours and forced the entire platform offline. How It Started […]