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The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon
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Choosing the Right Side: Bug Bounties and the Path to Cybersecurity
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Recognizing that the road he was on with hacking communities wasn't going to end well, Ben Brundage made a deliberate pivot toward cybersecurity. His first real test came in his senior year of high school, when the Dutch government opened an invitation to hackers worldwide to find vulnerabilities in its websites [1] — Benjamin Brundage "As a high school senior, Ben found two major security bugs in Dutch government websites during an open bug-bounty program. His reward: a bl…" 10:20 . Ben submitted not one but two major bugs. The reward was a black t-shirt emblazoned with 'Hacked the Dutch government, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt' — a joke prize that nonetheless gave Ben a genuine rush. He carried that energy into Rochester Institute of Technology, where he studied computer science and taught himself to automate tasks and build bots. That skill set, assembled without any awareness of what was coming, was about to point him directly at KimWolf.
As a high school senior, Ben Brundage found two major security vulnerabilities in Dutch government websites during an open bug-bounty program, earning only a t-shirt.
As a high school senior, Ben found two major security bugs in Dutch government websites during an open bug-bounty program. His reward: a black t-shirt reading 'Hacked the Dutch government, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.' It was a dopamine rush anyway.
Residential proxy networks let companies rent out your home IP address to route anonymous internet traffic — sometimes without your consent. Pirated streaming apps and cheap 'too good to be true' TV boxes are common vectors for installing the malware that makes this possible.
