Do you want to win $1 million dollars in a password hacking challenge?
I'm not a great fan of passwords, as anyone who has been paying attention to my scribblings will know. The passwordless era cannot come quickly enough as far as I'm concerned. However, as long as passwords remain a real-world reality, I will be a huge fan of password managers. The latest news from one of the biggest names in this space, which earlier this year
giving it a valuation of $6.8 billion, is 1Password. The latest announcement from 1Password is equally big news: the company has laid down a password hacking challenge with a record-breaking $1 million up for grabs.The challenge sounds simple enough: break into a 'white box' account protected by 1Password and capture a 'flag' which, in this case, contains some poor poetry.
Yes, we are talking about bug bounties here. Financial payouts for security researchers, those hackers who search for vulnerabilities to improve product security for the rest of us. The $1 million on offer marks , the vulnerability hunting platform used by 1Password. It also puts 1Password right up there with the likes of Apple and Google which have also offered $1 million although not with Bugcrowd.First of all, you will need to be a security researcher who is a member of the Bugcrowd community. You can get the ball rolling by
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