It's been almost 10 years since the first commercial for-profit bug bounty program was launched. Bug bounty programs have transformed the information security sector, and its negative impacts have …
Phineas Fisher Offers $100,000 Bounty to Hack Banks and Oil Companies
Phineas Fisher, notorious hacktivist, is launching a new kind of bug bounty incentivizing crime. Fisher announced on Friday that he would pay hackers up to $100,000 to reward hackers for public …
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Huawei Beats Google—Offers $220,000 For ‘Zero-Click’ Android Phone Hacks
Chinese tech giant Huawei launched a bug bounty program last week that will reward bug hunters up to $220,000 for detecting critical weaknesses in its Android devices. This program beats Google's, who …
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GitHub launches ‘Security Lab’ to help secure open-source ecosystem
At the GitHub conference on Thursday, GitHub announced a new program called Security Lab, a collaboration between different security researchers to fix bugs in open source projects. GitHub stated that …
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Bugcrowd Pays Out Over $500K in Bounties in One Week
In October, Bugcrowd disclosed that around 550 hackers from around the world reported roughly 6,500 vulnerabilities, resulting in a total payout of $1.6 million. The company, which launched in 2011, …
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Organizations At Risk for Data Breaches: System Vulnerabilities Increase by 92 Percent
Bugcrowd has released a new study on the current state of crowdsourced security. The report cites a 92% surge in the total number of vulnerabilities that were reported by bug bounty researchers last …
DoD bug bounty program to expand to more sensitive systems
"In yet another contract allowing outside hackers to test systems for vulnerabilities, the Department of Defense is opening the doors to more sensitive systems. In the past the bug bounties, as …
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Hackers Target Marines for Pentagon’s Latest Bug Bounty
A live hacking event in Las Vegas is targeting the Marine Corps in the Pentagon’s latest bug bounty program. Around 100 hackers were selected to identify vulnerabilities in the Corps’ primary …
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