Bounty Hunting in Sudan and Abroad
Bug bounty programs are getting more and more traction. Some see them as a cheap way to get a lot of pen-tests for free, and some see them as the creation of a global market for security testing. Mazin Ahmed will take a close look at existing bug bounty programs and explain some of the merits of the bounty hunting community sites. He will also take the perspective of the Companies attempting to set up a bug bounty program and highlight widespread misconceptions and why they are wrong. Spice this up with demonstrations of bugs he discovered recently and stories from the adventurous life of a whitehat hacker living in Khartoum, Sudan.
About the speaker
Mazin Ahmed
Information Security Specialist / Penetration Tester
Mazin Ahmed is an Information Security Specialist and a Penetration Tester.
Computers and their security are his passion for years, and every day he gets more attached to this field.
Information Security is not just his career focus, but it’s his hobby.
Mazin has worked for a variety of companies, universities, banks, providing the best security solutions, and ensuring that the maximum security possible.
Currently, he is running a few community projects to help raise better awareness regarding Information Security.
He is also a bug bounty programs participant in his spare time.
He has reported valid vulnerabilities to numerous top-profile companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Bugcrowd, Oracle, Ebay to name a few.
He has also been one of the top 3 researchers for PureVPN, one of the top 5 researchers for Tagged, and he was three times in the Bugcrowd top 10 researchers of the month.
He is currently among the 15 top researchers (out of 20,000+) on Bugcrowd.
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