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Life & fun · August 20, 2019

Interactive hacking demo of Capital One security breach

Kontra is an Application Security Training platform built for modern development teams.

Interactive hacking demo of Capital One security breach launched on August 20, 2019 with 9 votes, #904 of 3,185 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Kontra is built by industry veterans who invented and pioneered the first interactive application security training platform. We don't offer secure coding quizzes, that are effectively re-skinned multiple-choice questions. If that's your idea of educating developers about software security, we are not the company for you. Developers are who we serve. Adding artificial metrics, meaningless rewards and silly badges is not what we do. We respect their time far too much to patronize them with these gimmicks. The days of heavily scripted OWASP Top 10 training videos with robotic voice-overs are over. Interactive storytelling with realness and purpose in short bursts is what put's developers in…from application.security

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