MORE FROM FORBES Who Is The Mystery Snail? Windows Under Attack From Zero-Day Exploit By Davey Winder Dancing to a different vulnerability disclosure beat?īut what if someone is dancing to a different beat? Following the 2019 Tianfu Cup, Apple blogged that an attack had impacted iOS over a period of a couple of months. 'When it works, it is a beautiful dance,' he says. 'This kind of etiquette is known as responsible disclosure, or more recently coordinated disclosure, Jonathan Knudsen, a senior security strategist at the Synopsys Software Integrity Group, explains.

It is assumed to be a given, therefore, that the hackers taking part will not disclose their exploits and the vulnerabilities used until the vendors have had adequate time to issue a fix. 'Both give hackers relative free rein over the products they're attempting to exploit,' Balaam told me, 'and the cash prizes can rival some of the most popular professional sporting events.'īut, of course, with any hacking competition that relies on discovering zero-days, and less on an emulated environment like capture the flag events, 'there's the risk of a participant either selling or exploiting the vulnerabilities they have found outside the confines of the competition,' she adds. 'The security researchers involved in these schemes can be an addition to existing security teams and provide additional eyes on an organisation's products,' George Papamargaritis, the managed security service director at Obrela Security Industries, says, 'meaning bugs will be unearthed and disclosed before cybercriminals get a chance to discover them and exploit them maliciously.' Indeed, in terms of event style, Kristina Balaam, a senior security intelligence engineer at Lookout says, there's not much difference between the two. There are, of course, lots of positives about a hacking competition, such as the Tianfu Cup or Pwn2Own.

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