Mårten Mickos: Why I Joined HackerOne as CEO

I am joining HackerOne as its CEO because the company is on an important mission for our connected society. Our world is increasingly networked, and as a result increasingly vulnerable. Securing our environment is not only important to preventing cybercrime, but also to defending basic human rights and freedoms.


https://www.hackerone.com/ceo/marten-mic...kerone-ceo

Happy Hacker Holiday Gift Guide

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the favorite hackers in your life? Whether their interests lie in building stuff, breaking stuff or (better yet) building cool stuff to break other stuff, the creativity of your fellow security researchers knows no bounds.


https://www.hackerone.com/ethical-hacker...gift-guide

Expanding Reputation: Introducing Signal and Impact

HackerOne releases new Signal and Impact metrics to better describe researcher report history. Signal is the average Reputation per report. Impact is the average Reputation per bounty.


https://www.hackerone.com/ethical-hacker...and-impact

HackerOne 2015 Bounty Program Review and New $10K Minimum Bounty

HackerOne reports results of its own bug bounty program for 2015, increases minimum bounty for severe vulnerabilities to $10K.


https://www.hackerone.com/application-se...mum-bounty

What Great Hackers Have in Common

Great hackers never curb their curiosity. Increased recognition of their contribution is helping more companies understand that they are a valued partner, not an adversary.


https://www.hackerone.com/ethical-hacker...ave-common

The HackerOne Success Index - Response Efficiency

A vital part of success in vulnerability coordination is quickly acknowledging, validating, and ultimately fixing submitted issues and recognizing the researcher's effort.


https://www.hackerone.com/vulnerability-...efficiency

Useful Online Resources for New Hackers

Have you thought about becoming a hacker? Getting started is easier than you think. We've curated some of the best resources to help you build skills, whether you're a beginner or looking to improve your hacker-craft.


https://www.hackerone.com/ethical-hacker...ew-hackers

Fair and Transparent Hacker Invitations

We improved the hacker invitation system for private vulnerability coordination and bug bounty programs. The new system operates more transparently and ensures that top hackers are invited to more private programs.


https://www.hackerone.com/ethical-hacker...nvitations

Improving Public Bug Bounty Programs with Signal Requirements

HackerOne improves the quality of vulnerability reports received in public bug bounty programs with Signal Requirements and Rate Limiter. Signal Requirements allow a company to set the threshold for Signal that hackers must reach in order to submit reports to them. The updated Rate Limiter provides hackers the opportunity to still participate in a limited way, even if they are below the Signal requirement.


https://www.hackerone.com/vulnerability-...quirements

Environment Is Everything, and Other Tips For Your Open Source Project

One of the most important things to be successful is creating a friendly and open environment, being responsive on issues and pull requests, and making time to manage the workload. Open source projects don't start as a community, but you can build one.


https://www.hackerone.com/application-se...ce-project