Securax (1998–2002) was considered as one of
Belgium's strongest
hacking movements in the past twenty years and was founded by Filip Maertens and co-founded by Davy Van De Moere as an online community in order to combine skills and experiences in the domain of vulnerability identification,
zero-day exploit
A zero-day (also known as a 0-day) is a computer-software vulnerability previously unknown to those who should be interested in its mitigation, like the vendor of the target software. Until the vulnerability is mitigated, hackers can exploit it t ...
creation and
penetration testing methods. The movement was known for its critical insights into the
information security industry, bold press interviews and its near-daily newsletter (in Dutch).
At its peak, the newsletter was read by over 90,000 Dutch-speaking readers, both professionals and non-professionals. As of September 1999, companies could make use of the knowledge by way of "legal intrusion tests", where Securax assembled high quality and very skilled
Tiger Teams to perform the projects. It was as of May 2000 that Securax made the choice to walk the thin line between attaining a community of security experts and
hackers, while offering commercial services at enterprise level.
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Putzeys, Raoul]
"Belgische hackersvereniging Securax wil bedrijven wakker schudden"
Het Belang van Limburg
''Het Belang van Limburg'' (Dutch; literally ''The Interest of Limburg'') is a Dutch language regional newspaper in Belgium.
History and profile
''Het Belang van Limburg'' was founded in 1933 as a merger of several weekly magazines. The paper ...
, 5 May 2000 In 2002 the community was disbanded.
References
Hacker groups
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