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ForAllSecure s The Hacker Mind Podcast Hits 10,000 Downloads
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PALO ALTO, Calif., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Hacker Mind, a narrative-style podcast produced by ForAllSecure Inc. and hosted by Robert Vamosi, has gained over 10,000 downloads within its first seven months. Available on
The Hacker Mind is an original podcast from ForAllSecure. It’s the stories from the individuals behind the hacks you’ve read about, sharing a view of the hackers and their world that you may not have heard before. The Hacker Mind is about tapping into the secret world of hacking and uncovering the skills needed to hack for a living. We ve woven together the anecdotes of prominent hackers like
This program stems out of Hack the Pentagon, the first-ever federal bug bounty program the DoD launched in 2016. Before this, there was no way for hackers to interact with the DoD if they found a vulnerability and, as a result, many flaws went unreported, says Brett Goldstein, director of the Digital Defense Service, in a statement.
Under the initial policy, hackers were limited to targeting the DoD s public-facing websites and applications. Today s expansion lets them research and report vulnerabilities related to all the DoD s publicly accessible networks, frequency-based communication, Internet of Things, industrial control systems, and more. The department has always maintained the perspective that DoD websites were only the beginning as they account for a fraction of our overall attack surface, says Kristopher Johnson, director of the DoD Cyber Crime Center, which oversees the program.