Mazin Ahmed
Application and Infrastructure Security Engineering
Honors & Awards
U.S. Department of Defense – Security Acknowledgment 2018
U.S. Department of Defense
https://hackerone.com/reports/195544
Facebook WhiteHat 2014, 2016
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks
http://blog.mazinahmed.net/2014/06/my-story-with-onavo-facebooks.html
Twitter Security Acknowledgement 2014, 2015
Twitter
https://hackerone.com/twitter/thanks/prior
Oracle Security Acknowledgement 2014
Oracle
http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@otn/documents/webcontent/2188432.xml
Hack In The Box 2019 – AI Competition – Finalist 2019
Hack in The Box
Hack in the Box (HITB) AI competition is a two-month competition where companies and universities compete to build an offensive security project that utilizes Artificial Intelligence in performing target exploitation. Our team reached the finals for our project, Shennina, a fully automated host exploitation and post-exploitation tool that uses AI to predict the best exploit against the target.
https://aichallenge.cyberweek.ae/
Pwnie Awards Nomination - Best Client-side Bug of 2015 2015
Pwnie Awards
The finding of CVE-2014-9414, W3 Total Cache CSRF that leads to total defacements of websites has been nominated for the best client-side bug of 2015 in the Pwnie Awards. The award is given to the person who discovered or exploited the most technically sophisticated and interesting client-side bug.
http://pwnies.com
Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2015 – 4th Place 2015
Top Web Hacking Techniques Award
The research “Evading All Web-Application Firewalls XSS Filters” has received fourth place in the Top Web Hacking Techniques of 2015 award. The award is given to acknowledge and reward the hard work of the most influential research done by security researchers.
http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-for-2015-/d/d-id/1325281
https://www.whitehatsec.com/blog/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-of-2015/
ABN AMRO Bank Security Acknowledgement - 2 times 2014
ABN AMRO Group
Sudanese Higher-Education Championship 2017 - 1st Place 2017
Ministry of Higher Education – Sudan
LinkedIn Security Acknowledgement - 2 times 2014
Linkedin
Mozilla Hall of Fame - Q4 2014 2014
The Mozilla Foundation
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/bug-bounty/web-hall-of-fame/
ProtonMail’s Hackathon 2nd Place 2014
ProtonMail
Achieved second place in ProtonMail’s first hackathon in August 2014. I have also received the “Artisan” award for performing the most creative attack discovery resulting in a bug found, and the “Shotgun” award for disclosing the most amount of bugs.
https://protonmail.ch/hackathon/
Ebay Security Acknowledgement 2014
Ebay
http://ebay.com/securitycenter/ResearchersAcknowledgement.html
Yandex Security Acknowledgement 2016
Yandex
https://yandex.com/bugbounty/hall-of-fame/2016/6/
Symantec Wall of Fame 2017
Symantec
https://www.symantec.com/connect/pages/security-researcher-wall-fame
Sony Hall of Fame 2014
Sony
https://secure.sony.net/hallofthanks
ESET Security Acknowledgement 2015
ESET
https://mazinahmed.net/uploads/ESET_Acknowledgement.png
Souq Security Acknowledgement 2017
Souq
https://hackerone.com/souq/thanks
Avira Security Acknowledgement 2016
Avira
https://mazinahmed.net/uploads/Avira_Acknowledgement.png
Adobe Security Competition 3rd Place 2015
Adobe
Achieved 3rd place in a private security competition held by Adobe in partnership with Bugcrowd in May 2015.
AT&T Hall of Fame 2017
AT&T
https://bugbounty.att.com/hof.php
Bugcrowd Security Acknowledgement (2014-2015) - 3 Times 2014, 2015
Bugcrowd
https://bugcrowd.com/bugcrowd/hall-of-fame
Tagged Security Acknowledgement (2014) - 15 Times 2014
Tagged
https://bugcrowd.com/tagged/hall-of-fame
PureVPN Security Acknowledgement (2014) - 10 Times 2014
PureVPN
https://bugcrowd.com/purevpn
GreenHouse.io Security Acknowledgement 2014
GreenHouse
https://hackerone.com/greenhouse/thanks
Pocket Security Acknowledgement 2014
Pocket
https://help.getpocket.com/article/870-pocket-security-overview
LookOut Security Acknowledgement 2014
LookOut
https://hackerone.com/lookout/thanks
MailChimp Security Acknowledgement 2014
MailChimp
http://mailchimp.com/about/security-response/
MediaFire Security Acknowledgement 2014
MediaFire
Reported multiple vulnerabilities on MediaFire services.
Avast Security Acknowledgement 2014
Avast
PagerDuty Security Acknowledgement (2014) - 2 Times 2014
PagerDuty
Careem (Acquired by Uber) 2022
Careem (Acquired by Uber)
Indeed Wall of Fame 2014
Indeed