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Today I will talk about ethical hackers and a project that will help them to earn on their noble work.
So, as you already understood, dear reader, from the title, I'll tell you about ICO (crowdsdale, tokenail, TGE) of this project. By the way, if you are not sure that you understand what the ICO is, then about it and the reasons for my participation in them, you can read the article "Answers to questions. My thoughts about ICO."
Who are the "ethical hackers"?
It was a dark room. And only at the wall was a dim light. Here at the table in front of the laptop monitor sat a man in a hood and glasses. The man with glasses quickly fingered the keyboard and various combinations of numbers and letters appeared on the screen ...
Many in the modern world will learn in the above-described person a hacker.
A hacker is a programmer, an IT specialist who creates programs, most often - changes the program code of already created programs for a specific purpose.
More often than not, people think of hackers as hacking thieves who "hack" code, steal information, money, or do some kind of crime. However, like everything else in this world - interference in the code of programs can have both an evil goal and a good one. It's like, for example, a bearsweeper - a person who specializes in security burglaries, doors. You can "open" the door with malice, but you can help open the door to a person who has forgotten the keys inside.
Types of hackers
That's why hackers in the world are divided into three types:
Black Hat Hackers (from English - "hackers in black hats" or "black hackers") are those IT specialists who are called cybercriminals, illegal intruders of computer systems and programs.
Gray Hat Hackers (gray hackers or gray hackers) are semi-legal "crackers" who, when they intervene in the code, do not violate laws or slightly violate the laws, but they violate the rules of any Internet service.
White Hat Hackers, or the so-called " ethical hackers " are programmers who specialize in testing the security of computer systems and programs, are looking for vulnerabilities in the code to help developers make their product more secure. Sometimes "ethical hackers" as well as "black hackers" hack computer systems, but unlike "blacks" - not for profit or harm, but for the purpose of correcting mistakes or helping the victims. Typically, "ethical hackers" are IT security experts, IT researchers and programmers who conduct code testing and audit, as well as fix "bugs" (errors in the code) for a fee or on a voluntary basis.
It was the "ethical hackers" of the White Hat Hackers who helped save the remaining funds this summer in the long-suffering online wallet for the Parity Wallet crypto currency. So, in July 2017, unknown hackers ("black hackers") broke into the service of Parity Wallet. Using the vulnerability, they withdrew from there three separate transactions of 153,000 ETH (then it was about $ 32 million, and now - more than $ 71 million). Using the same vulnerability, "white hackers" protected the remaining funds in the purse, amounting to 377 000 ETH. Thus, hackers from the group White Hat Hackers saved the users an impressive amount of $ 176 million. Agree, such specialists should receive a fair reward for their work. And this will help ...
Hacken
Our main goal is to unite the best white hat hackers and CS professionals of the world under the Hacken Ecosystem and build a bug bounty marketplace based on blockchain with its own token, HKN. Buying HKNs will allow one to receive high-quality cybersecurity services at an attractive price.
— The Hacken Team
In order to ensure that the "ethical hackers", about which I wrote above, were able to securely receive a fair reward for correcting errors in the code, a new Hacken crypto currency is created.
Ecosystem Hacken
The Hacken ecosystem is a community-supported trading platform in the field of cyber security services around the world, using blocking technology with its own crypto currency.
Hacken will help clients organize the verification of sites, applications, programs and block system systems, as well as solve the found "bugs" (errors).
According to the developers and according to the White paper of the project, Hacken Ecosystem consists of the HackenProof bug marketplace, HackenProof bug bounty marketplace, the Unreported Zero-Day Remuneration Platform, the Cyber Security CyberSecurity Startup Incubator ( Hacken Cybersecurity Startups Incubator ), Cyber Security Analytical Center and HackIT Conference.
The Hacken ecosystem will enable customers to purchase high-quality penetration testing and vulnerability assessment services for their products. The project team will use blocking and smart contracts to store data, perform object inspections for security. This will help the special protocol HackenProof Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures.
The only payment tool that is acceptable for all operations in the Hacken Ecosystem is the Hacken (HKN) token based on the ERC20 standard on the Ethereum block system.
HKN token
HKN tokens will be needed to pay for their verification and protection services, which will be provided by ethical hackers White Hat Hackers. The main idea of
the Hacken team is that each owner of the HKN token becomes a member of the community. And since HKN is a specialized token that is primarily targeted at cybersecurity professionals, the token will unite these people, creating incentives for doing business with each other and for investing in cyber security startups. In this way, tokens in the Hacken project will be able to bring together representatives of the cybersecurity field for joint solutions. And for an investor, the HKN token is interesting in the long term, since the Hacken team applies the principle of "burning" HKN tokens in order to manage their volatility and liquidity. According to this approach, half of the commission from each transaction will be deactivated forever. This provides additional value to holders of HKN tokens.
Urgency of the project
There are currently more than 348,000 open security positions, according to CyberSeek. By 2022, there will be 1.8 million unfilled positions, according to the Center for Cyber Safety and Education . As companies evolve toward digital business and bimodal setups, these skills are becoming more difficult to find and more expensive to hire, particularly in rural areas. - www.gartner.com
Hacken plans to change this by creating a vulnerability search market and a startup startup in the field of cybersecurity. At the moment, the project attracts funds - within the framework of the crowdsdale there is a sale of Hacken (HKN) tokens - the project currency.
About ICO
Project Token: - HKN
Token based on: Ethereum
Total number of generated tokens: 20000000 Hackens
Minimum Purchase: 1 ETH
Price of the tokens: 1 HKN = 1 USD
Dates of sales of tokens
Token Sale (ICO): runs now and ends on November 30, 2017 at 10:00 (UTC)
ICO website: https://hacken.io/#orderbook
Payment methods for tokens: BTC, ETH, USD, TaaS.
Interesting about HackIT
As mentioned above, a HackIT conference was created in the Hacken ecosystem. This year HackIT Cup 2017 was held in Kharkov and in Kiev (the final part). It was after this conference that I began to take an interest in the Hacken project and prepare this article. The conference was unusual. First, HackIT Cup 2017, held in Ukraine, was held directly on ... on board the world's largest aircraft!
The Ukrainian An-225 "Mriya" was specially converted for this conference.
Secondly, at the conference in Kiev attended the famous 17-year-old hacker Jack Cable, who to test the code not so long ago hacked the site of the US Air Force, co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, the author of the legendary email encryption application PGP Phil Zimmermann and dozens of young hackers, all of whom belong to the big international league White Hat Hackers:
Impressive video from the HackIT Final Cup conference from the official Hacken_io channel:
Steve Wozniak's speech about the AI from the HackIT Final Cup conference
My opinion
With the growth in the number of software, applications, and decentralized applications (dApps), as well as the growth in the number of transactions for electronic payments and the number of Internet items (Internet of Things, IoT), the risk of their deliberate hacking and unintentional errors "bugs" in the code. It is ethical hackers for worthy rewards that can be those specialists who will be able to clean up the above-described problems. I believe that with the help of the Hacken project in the event of its successful implementation, hackers will provide high-quality cybersecurity services at an attractive price. In connection with the model of "burning" tokens, I consider it promising to have the project tokens, because with each month there will be less of them, which will lead to an increase in their prices. Successful implementation of the project depends on the project team.
The core of the team includes Dmitry Budorin (certified international accountant and auditor, who worked in Deloitte for 8 years in various accounting, auditing and project management positions), Nikita Knish (general director of ProtectMaster - Ukrainian cybersecurity company and co-founder of the HackIT conference ), Yegor Aushev (PhD in high-energy physics at DESY, Hamburg, CEO of Information Security Group - a company in the field of cybersecurity that provides penetration testing services, and Andrey Matyukhin (a cybersecurity specialist who has 13 years of successful experience in various corporations, government agencies, banks and the International Olympic Committee).
Among the advisers (consultants) of the project, I would like to mention those I have known for a long time. This is the famous cryptoinvestor, the creator of the first commercial anti-virus software - John McAfee. I think, it is not necessary to tell about it.
The second adviser to the project, to which I drew attention, is the famous hacker from White Hat and the member of the Ambisafe team Alexei Matiasevich. Let me remind you that Ambisafe company helps various projects to conduct their own token.
Useful links of the Hacken project
Project website: https://hacken.io/en/
Blog of the project: https://medium.com/@hacken
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hacken_io
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hacken.io/
Project branch on bitcointalk.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2135278.0
Good luck, @hacken
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