{"id":10339,"date":"2026-02-02T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/county-pays-600k-wrongfully-jailed-pen-testers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:20:43","slug":"county-pays-600k-wrongfully-jailed-pen-testers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/county-pays-600k-wrongfully-jailed-pen-testers\/","title":{"rendered":"County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Iowa police arrested two penetration testers in 2019 for doing their jobs, highlighting the risk to security professionals in red teaming exercises.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cybersecurity-operations\/county-pays-600k-wrongfully-jailed-pen-testers\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers Iowa police arrested two penetration testers in 2019 for doing their jobs, highlighting the risk to security professionals in red teaming exercises. Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-10339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}