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1. CONTEXT
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Hackerone
Listening Questions 1
1. What do hackers try to steal?

2. QUESTIONS.
2. What are two elements of hacking and what are they used for?
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3. Who do Hackerone partner with?
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4. How do hackers find jobs through Hackerone?
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5. When are hackers paid for their work?
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Listening Questions 2

3. LISTEN

1. What are 2 notable companies or organizations that hired Hackerone?
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2. What was the ‘Hack the Pentagon’ initiative and what were the results?
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3. What annual hacking events are occurring?
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4. What has been seen as irresponsible by some companies?
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5. What was the frequency of hacking events in 2021?

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1. What is your opinion of hiring hackers to purposefully break intocompanies?
2. What do companies need to do to improve their cybersecurity?

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Hacking has become a billion-dollar business. The image of hacking used to be the illegal
actions of young computer geniuses finding ways to break into companies’ computer systems
as a way of being a nuisance. Today, it is a government sanctioned activity, where teams ofhighly trained computer engineers purposefully attack and steal business information or national
intelligence of other nations.

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Hacking has many facets, some of the more common ones are ransomware, viruses, trojans,and social engineering. All of these can be used to gather private and confidential information toexploit a person, company, or even country.

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vocabulary youfind. Look themup and add themto your list.

In the fight against cybercriminals, a new breed of security company has emerged wherehackers themselves are hired to find security issues. The biggest so far is Hackerone. Foundedin 2012, this company partners with the world’s largest hacking community to purposefully try tofind security holes in a company’s network. Hackerone has an interesting business design
where it relies on crowdsourcing to find workers. First, major companies make a contract withHackerone. Then the company posts the opportunity on their own job platform. Hackers canthen choose which job they want to attempt. Once vulnerabilities have been discovered andverified, the individuals are then paid for their work.

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1. Once your passport has been __________ you can enter a country.
2. Drug tests are __________ for all athletes.
3. There are still some __________ of the company that are not working well.
4. The IT company had to pay millions of dollars to correct the security__________ in their program.
5. Local residents complained that the noise from the stadium was causing apublic __________.

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Due to the success of the program, further initiatives such as “Hack the Army” and “Hack theAirforce” led to discoveries of hundreds of security and network flaws with thousands of dollars
being paid to professional hackers. Live events and hackathons that run in collaboration withmajor companies have now become annual events.

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11223344To date Fortune 500 companies such as Twitter, Adobe, LinkedIn, and even the US Defense
Department have hired Hackerone to help them secure their applications and private
information. One of the first initiatives was a program called “Hack the Pentagon”. The program
encouraged hackers to try and crack into their system and find security holes. This resulted inover 138 verified vulnerabilities and over $70,000 paid out.

55Although there are major companies who hire Hackerone to secure their network, there is
growing concern over the global impact of cyberattacks. As noted by Technewsworld,
astonishingly 20% of companies have no plans to protect themselves against attacks. This has
been seen as irresponsible by many as cyberattack incidents have increased in speed andfrequency. Hacking events occurred every 40 seconds in 2016 and sped up to every 11
seconds in 2021. These facts leave a huge headache for the evolving economy where digitaltransformation is seen as almost mandatory.