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ATM Jackpot (DEF CON 18, 2010) – Barnaby Jack rolled a real ATM onstage and made it spew cash with a remote exploit. The demo coined the term “jackpotting” and forced ATM vendors to overhaul firmware security. #Defcon #Hackers

Stay patient. Bug bounty is a long game, not a quick hack. #cybersecurity

Discovering cloud environments is a profitable area for bug hunters. By mapping cloud assets, finding exposed IAM keys, exploiting SSRF to reach metadata, and taking advantage of permissive serverless roles, a full system breach is possible. Learn more: www.toxsec.com/p/a-bug-hunt... #BugBounty

Rome Lab Breach (1994) – Two teenage hackers from the UK penetrated U.S. Air Force research networks for weeks, bouncing through dozens of international relays and nearly triggering a military alert. #Hackers

bug hunting is gardening. plant payloads, water with patience, wait for errors to bloom. #bugbounty

T-Mobile Sidekick Data Heist (2004) – A 21-year-old exploited a poorly secured proxy to steal Paris Hilton’s celebrity contacts and photos, exposing the weakness of early carrier web portals. #Hackers

Every long night pays off. sometimes in cash, sometimes in skill. both count. #bughunting

Always test like a pessimist and write like an optimist. #BugBounty

Captain Crunch’s Jailhouse Phone (1972) – John Draper continued teaching phreaking techniques from prison, sneaking manuals to visitors and inspiring the next wave of modem hackers. #Hackers

Automated reconnaissance can link tools to uncover secrets quicker than humans. Monitor your logs for pattern detection and secure directory access. #CyberSecurity #AI

Morris Worm (1988) The first major internet worm was released by a Cornell grad student “just to measure the size of the internet.” It crashed 10% of the entire internet and earned the first conviction under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. #hackers

The Badge Firmware Easter Egg (2019) – Reverse-engineers uncovered a hidden game inside the badge’s microcontroller that revealed secret party invites when beaten. #defcon

WEP in a Weekend (DEF CON 8, 2000) – A small team proved the brand-new Wi-Fi encryption standard could be cracked with a few hours of packet capture—years before vendors fixed it. #defcon

Project Raven Box (1970s) – Underground builders sold custom “black boxes” that simulated coin tones, letting phreakers make free pay-phone calls worldwide until Bell finally changed its signaling. #Hackers

Every “no” is just getting you closer to the “yes.” #bugbounty #grind

burp crashed again. i think it deserves a bounty. #bugbounty

What’s your pre-report ritual before hitting “Submit”? #BugBounty

How often do you revisit old programs after a scope expansion? #BugBounty

The 414s (1983) – A group of Milwaukee teens dialed into dozens of government and corporate systems—including Los Alamos National Lab—sparking the first U.S. Senate hearing on computer crime. #Hackers

funny how the broken things always hide behind the prettiest UIs. #bugbounty

ever find a vuln that makes you say “no way this is real” out loud? #bugbounty

The Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion (1987) – Chicago TV viewers watched a hacker in a Max Headroom mask hijack two prime-time broadcasts using a rogue microwave link. The culprit was never caught. #hackers

LLM hallucinations feel like chatting with a confident liar. #AIsecurity

Probe every parameter. Don’t just test id=. Try integer fuzzing, negative numbers, encoded payloads, and nested JSON keys. Even “read-only” params can hide IDOR or injection bugs. #BugBounty

funny how “deprecated” endpoints are usually the most alive. #bugbounty

tracebit ran the context bomb through 100+ simulated attack runs in a fake aws environment. the whole idea is one content change to bait you already run. no new tooling, no new system. just a string that makes the attacker’s own model refuse itself. www.toxsec.com/p/context-bo...

How many Burp tabs is “too many” before you lose track? #BugBounty

sometimes the grind feels endless, but persistence is the real exploit. #bugbounty #motivation

The biggest risk in “serverless” is believing it means “securityless.” #Cybersecurity

your #AI injection defense has a blind spot: it can't tell you when it fails. a #classifier that misses an attack doesn't raise its hand. you find out from a support ticket.

model stealing sounds fancy until you realize it’s just downloading weights like a pirate. #machinelearning

Lockpick Village – Physical security meets hacking: attendees learn to pick real locks, often opening “secure” high-end cylinders in under a minute. A DEF CON tradition that’s outlived several encryption algorithms. #defcon

it’s always the endpoints with “test” in the name that give the best surprises. #bugbounty

Car Hacking Village (DEF CON 23, 2015) – Researchers remotely killed a Jeep Cherokee’s engine on the highway, forcing Chrysler to recall 1.4 million vehicles. Live demo, worldwide headlines. #defcon

blue teamers don’t get enough credit for the whack-a-mole game they play daily. #cybersecurity

half the battle is convincing yourself to hit “send” on the report. #bugbounty

spent 3 hours chasing a bug, turned out to be a load balancer just messing with me. #bugbounty

when you feel like quitting, remember someone else will find it if you don’t. #hackerlife

don’t give up today. tomorrow might be the report you’ve been chasing. #motivation #cybersecurity

openai's plan ships three tiers off the same model. default refuses on shape. TAC drops friction for vetted defenders. cyber tier runs live-target validation. same weights, three walls, gated entirely on who you proved you are. #OpenAI #TrustedAccess #AISecurity

every bounty program should include free aspirin in the reward. #bugbounty

AI is changing cybersecurity on both sides of the fight. PromptFlux shows how LLM-aware malware could adapt, generate commands, and challenge traditional detection methods. Security teams should prepare. aitransformer.online/promptflux-a... #CyberSecurity #AI #LLM #Malware

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Stealing Claude as Cisco SD-WAN Root Exploit Detailed https://blindthoughts.com/anthropic-alibaba-claude-theft-cisco-sd-wan-exploit #security #ai #geopolitics #silicon #cybercrime

people still confuse pentesting and red teaming. pentest = find all the holes you can. be loud. it's a vulnerability scan with a pulse. red team = can you get in, stay in, and achieve your goal without them ever knowing? it’s about testing the defenders, not just the tech.

MFA exhaustion is a real issue. Notifications on your phone aren't foolproof. Think about using FIDO keys for essential accounts. #Security #Authentication

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663324

dify, the platform behind a million ai apps, had a cross-tenant chat wiretap bug zafran’s difytap research found four flaws. the headliner lets an attacker enable tracing on a victim’s app and capture every prompt and response as a persistent exfil channel. patched in 1.14.2, one fix still pending.

Five-Eye Agencies Call for “Whole-of-Organization and Whole-of-Society Response” to Stop Cyber Threats