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Mohamed Elnoby

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Native name
  
محمد عبد الباسط النوبي

Awards
  
see blow

Citizenship
  
Mexico

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Born
  
January 1, 1988 (age 29) (
1988-01-01
)
Qena, Egypt

Known for
  
Information Security Analyst and Freelance Programmer

Notable work
  
listed in hall of fame in 22 top sites

Mohamed Abdelbasset Elnouby (Arabic: محمد عبد الباسط النوبي‎‎); a famous Egyptian programmer, and an Information Security Specialist, He's one of the most famous white hat Arabic hackers, His start point was in 2013; when he penetrated and discovered a vulnerabilitya on Facebook resulted that the website gave him a reward and focused on his name that so many Arabic and global media channels paid a big attention for him. He also discovered many vulnerabilities on many famous and global websites, like: Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Adobe and others. He has been honored for that effort plus adding his name to the add value and the hall of fame list of the white hat security experts on more than 20 global websites.

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he is a founder member in S3Geeks, The Chief Technonogy Officer in Google business community in upper Egypt and the ex general moderator for the Arabic version for Foursquare app, Facebook has added his name to the hall of fame list of the white hat security experts in 2013, 2014 and 2015 in row.

Background

He was born in 1988 in Esna, Qena, upper Egypt. He is graduated from the faculty of the tourism and hotels, Elmenia university. He started working on the programming and computer networks field since 1999. His code name on Facebook is " SymbianSyMoh ". He worked for many organizations like S3Geeks. He cooperated with some volunteering works like the Arabization of the famous social media website @twitter. He also worked as the general moderator for the Arabic version for Foursquare app. He's working now as a freelance programmer and the Chief Technonogy Officer in Google business community in upper Egypt.

He took His first step in penetration by hacking the others' computers and stealing their accounts until he turned to be a moral hacker or what we call a "white hat hacker". His start point was the discovering a vulnerability in the famous website "Facebook" that he got a financial reward for it plus adding his name to the honor list of the white hat security experts. He continued in discovering vulnerabilities till he got to 5 ones, then the processes of vulnerabilities discovery on the global websites continued till he got to 22 websites and now he's famous by "the hunter of the vulnerabilities rewards".

The list of the hacked websites

  • Facebook, 5 vulnerabilities on the website, reward plus adding his name to the hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Google, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Twitter, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to the hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Yahoo, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Adobe, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Sony, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their the hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • amazon, discovered a vulnerability on the website, the company is still checking it.
  • WordPress, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Nokia, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Tmobile, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • AT&T, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • PayPal, discovered a vulnerability on the website, the company is still checking it.
  • Foursquare, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Opera browser
  • MediaFire, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Hootsuite, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Buffer inc, discovered a vulnerability on the website, his name added to their hall of fame list of the white hat security experts.
  • Beatcasa, discovered a vulnerability on the website.
  • Freelancer.com, discovered a vulnerability on the website.
  • Rapid7, discovered a vulnerability on the website.
  • Eventbrite, discovered a vulnerability on the website.
  • References

    Mohamed Elnoby Wikipedia