{"id":32552,"date":"2016-12-11T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-program-awards-points-to-computer-hackers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:59:04","slug":"new-program-awards-points-to-computer-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-program-awards-points-to-computer-hackers","title":{"rendered":"New Program Awards Points to Computer Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2_h-EFlztY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>United <a href=\"http:\/\/viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com\/2015\/05\/14\/united-offers-up-to-1-million-miles-for-identifying-it-vulnerabilities\/\" target=_blank>offers up to a million miles in its bug bounty program<\/a> but it\u2019s not just white hat hackers being offered points.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/12\/ddos-attack-game.html?\" target=_blank>a new program that will award hackers with points for participating in DDoS attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish computer hacking group wants to leverage their own efforts and distribute the mayhem. They also may be looking to hack the hackers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com\/2016\/12\/10\/new-program-awards-points-computer-hackers\/\">http:\/\/viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com\/2016\/12\/10\/new-progr...r-hackers\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United offers up to a million miles in its bug bounty program but it\u2019s not just white hat hackers being offered points. There\u2019s a new program that will award hackers with points for participating in DDoS attacks. A Turkish computer hacking group wants to leverage their own efforts and distribute the mayhem. They also may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59503,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32552\/revisions\/59503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}