1. During Pwn2Own, an annual hacking competition held in March in Vancouver, a group of French hackers won $100,000 and a Tesla Model 3.
The event benefits both the participants and the software houses which, thanks to the efforts of hackers, are subsequently able to solve bugs and any more serious issues, without having to risk unrecoverable consequences at the hands of criminals.
2. Twitter's source code was illegally leaked online, thus the platform took steps to safeguard itself, despite its promise to release the code as open source at the end of the month.
3. In the United States, the General Services Administration (GSA) recently released a redacted report that points out that the government agency has misled its customers and other government offices into telling them that Login.gov complies with NIST standards ( National Institute of Standards and Technology).