Huge Rise in Hackers Submitting Vulnerabilities During #COVID19
2021 Hacker Report.
The bug bounty platform noted that hackers ramped up their workload in response to the digital shift during COVID-19, with 38% of those surveyed stating they have spent more time hacking since the start of the pandemic.
There was also an increased focus on emerging threats last year. This includes security weaknesses linked to cloud adoption, with misconfiguration vulnerabilities rising by 310%, while submissions for both improper access control and privilege escalation went up by 53%.
Additionally, hackers increasingly targeted different types of technologies in 2020. This included a 694% growth in hackers saying they spend time hacking APIs, a 663% rise in those hacking Android and a 1000% increase in hackers focusing on IoT compared to 2019.
A Hacker’s Point of View
This post is long, long overdue: in fact, I should have started this website with this post. This is the original Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor, a member of the Legion of Doom hacker crew. It was first published 29 years ago today in Phrack magazine.
A lifetime ago.
It succinctly and eloquently expresses the nature, power, and aspirations of hacker culture, for good and for ill. In the decades since it was written, computers have become a much larger industry, but the hacker mindset and the Silicon Valley mindset should not be confused. There’s nothing in here about IPO’s, networking, or brogrammers. This is a simple, clear philosophical statement, and a call to action: both on the part of hackers, and on the part of the society with which they coexist. You can see the roots of anarcho-hacktivism right here, as tiny shoots about to go very, very big.