danielmakelley Top Security Researcher of the Month | Security Researcher Profile

Researcher reputation:  340

Real name:
Daniel Kelley

About me:
Hall of Fames
Crown Court Digital System
Ministry of Justice
National Crime Agency
Parliament
University of Cambridge
Deutsche Bank
Norwegian School of Theology
Raffine
Australian National University
Netherlands Hockey Association
AtVirtual
Skoolbag LMS
Stanford University
ESET
Ecwid CMS
Room Booking System
CapMetro
DASH Payments
Boards IE
Luzerne College
Latostadora
Duke University
MIT University
AT&T
Esri
BBC
Sony
Deutsche Telekom
United Nations
Adobe
AOL
Houz

Contact email:
[email protected]

Alternative Contacts:
Web-page: https://danielmakelley.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmakelley/

Experience in Application Security
over 5 years

Recommendations and Acknowledgements | Full List:

    2 May, 2019

     MChinnasamy Manoj from Infrafrontier GmbH:

Dan helped us by finding the bug and promptly informed the same.

    25 March, 2018

     suisho AKI from densuke:

With precise advice, They helped me very much. I really appreciate it.

    16 February, 2018

     demetri Demetri from BBNS:

I appreciate the approach of identifying vulnerabilities in a professional manner like this. Dan has been fast and helpful in communicating the issue clearly and concisely.

    18 January, 2018

     filippo74 Filippo from mymovies.it:

Thank you for your report about XSS vulnerabilities... quick and very professional. Grazie

    9 January, 2018

     _june Mia from ModCloth:

Thanks for your help! Fast and professional.

    5 January, 2018

     Anthesum Ralph from Spielplatznet.de:

Thanks for reporting the Cross Site Scripting issue. Helped me a lot to safeguard my website.

    22 December, 2017

     dossy Dossy S. from Panoptic:

Dan brought a previously-patched XSS issue that had somehow been regressed to my attention. Re-applied the fix and deployed: thanks!

    6 November, 2017

     itea97137491 Vincent from n/a:

Fast and professional! Thank you Dan

    31 October, 2017

     robtexdotcom Robert Olsson from Robtex:

Thank you for your kind help! Keep doing what you're doing. Quick and professional and to the point.

    21 October, 2017

     manuelgobeaut manuelgobeaut from W&B CREATION:

Thank you for discovering a security issue, and help me to solve it.

    19 October, 2017

     theoldhorse3 Alex from Arthur Conan Doyle:

Many thanks to you for pointing the bug. Much appreciated.

    19 October, 2017

     barryhunter Barry Hunter from Geograph Project:

Quick and simple. Found something we (obviously) not aware of, and prompted us to fix. Thanks.

    8 September, 2017

     carlosdavidepto Carlos Davide from MULTILEARNING Group:

Quick and very professional reply to initial contact, with all pertinent details about the vulnerability (POC exploit, possible cause and suggestions for resolution).

    6 September, 2017

     xech69 xav from Omnispace:

Thank you for this intervention as fast as effective. And Dan gives us some leads to fix the problem. Great!

    31 August, 2017

     SkillshareEng Jennifer from Skillshare:

Fast and professional! Thanks Dan!!

    29 August, 2017

     __sw1tch__ Silas from Virgin Australia:

Dan is incredibly professional, very responsive and a pleasure to work with. Many thanks!

    25 August, 2017

     MalagaCarCom Ruben from MalagaCar.com:

Dan found a cross-site scripting vulnerability in our site and sent us a notification. He even gave us some helpful indications on how to fix it, so the problem was solved in a few minutes. Thank you very much!

    18 August, 2017

     davidnotset David from Antadis:

Really fast to provide a proper vulnerability test case. Nice communication, really helpful. Great job Dan.

    15 August, 2017

     antonioli Leonardo Antonioli from Niteroi's City Hall:

Thank you very much for pointing out the problem in our system and helping us to solve it. Dan was very helpful, responded quickly and with technical mastery of the situation. We are very thankful for the good work! Thank you very much on behalf of the Niterói's City Hall.

    10 August, 2017

     Szilard41667708 Szilard from Projects Abroad:

Thank you for your fast and professional response helping us to solve our security issue. Keep up the good work !

    2 August, 2017

     WWU_Muenster Johannes S. from WWU Muenster:

Many thanks for bringing this vulnerability to our attention and for providing clear and precise details of the problem, that helped us to solve the issue.

    25 July, 2017

     srmihasr Miha Lampret from FlatShare Ltd:

Thank you very much for fast and professional response. The details you have provided helped us to fix the flaw quickly.

    31 January, 2017

     rdgourlay Rob Gourlay :

Many thanks for bringing this vulnerability to my attention and for providing clear and precise details of the problem. I really appreciate your assistance in retesting to make sure that I had resolved the issue.

    8 December, 2016

     BrandeisInfoSec John from Brandeis University:

Dan was very helpful and informative, and super quick to reply. His info helped us ID a server that needed to be retired. Thanks!

    8 December, 2016

     carldr Carl Drinkwater from 29degrees Limited:

Quick communication along with a clear and concise report of how to reproduce the vulnerability. Thank you Dan for helping to resolve it as quickly as we did.

    7 December, 2016

     geefgratis Jordan van Bergen from Stichting GeefGratis:

Dan gave us a simple way to reproduce the vulnerability by e-mail and we where able to fix this issue because we could explain this easy and straight forward to our development party. It was like forwarding an e-mail to get it fixed.

    31 October, 2016

     ISOatUO Jim Cheetham from University of Otago:

A good find in an obscure corner of our of our sites. Quickly communicated so we could fix the issue immediately. Many thanks.

    25 July, 2016

     escubaguru Daniel from eScuba Pty Ltd:

Totally responsive, very helpful - the best we've ever dealt with in the security space.

    30 June, 2016

     ribenaisgood Matt from A map company:

Dan gave us a simple way to reproduce the vulnerability and was quick to provide us with clear and detailed further information when we had questions about it.

    23 June, 2016

     kominbhai Komin Antony from InvestorWords:

Dan helped us find and provided the necessary details to fix the vulnerability on our website. It helped us to resolve the issue quickly and improved the overall security of our site.

    8 June, 2016

     ActOnSoftware Jahvita Rastafari from Act-On Software:

Thanks to Dan, we have been able to identify and fix a vulnerability. We thank you for working with us to get this issue resolved!

    6 June, 2016

     robferrer Rob Ferrer from Presto Classical Ltd:

Thank you very much for your responsible disclosure and professional response. I was able to patch the bug with little fuss.

    4 May, 2016

     cpweather Christian from MC:

Thanks! Very quick and efficient! You help to make a safer web.

Honor Badges

Number of Secured Websites

10+ Websites	50+ Websites	500+ Websites	WEB SECURITY VETERAN 1000+ Websites

Advanced Security Research

WAF Bypasser	CSRF Master 30+ Reports	AppSec Logic Master 30+ Reports	Fastest Fix Fix in 24 hours

Outstanding Achievements

Secured OBB	OBB Advocate	Improved OBB

Commitment to Remediate and Patch

Patch Master 55% Patched	Patch Guru 65% Patched	Patch Lord 75% Patched

Recommendations and Recognition

REPUTABLE 10+ Recommends	FAMOUS 25+ Recommends	GLOBALLY TRUSTED 50+ Recommends

Distinguished Blog Author

1 Post	3 Posts	5+ Posts

Research Statistics

Total reports:	5904
Total reports on VIP sites:	784
Total patched vulnerabilities:	3048
Recommendations received:	33
Active since:	25.04.2016
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