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52 hackers participate in ninth U.S. Department of Defense and HackerOne bug bounty program
2020-01-17 02:00

Through partnership with the Defense Digital Service, the U.S. Department of Defense and HackerOne, the number one hacker-powered pentesting and bug bounty platform, announced the results of the second Army bug bounty program, 'Hack the Army 2.0'. Fifty-two trusted hackers participated in the Hack the Army 2.0 bug bounty challenge, reporting 146 valid vulnerabilities over the course of five-weeks.

Public Bug Bounty Program Launched for Kubernetes
2020-01-15 18:18

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation this week announced the launch of a public bug bounty program for Kubernetes, with rewards of up to $10,000 per vulnerability. It was originally developed by Google and it's now maintained by the CNCF. The new bug bounty program is hosted by HackerOne and CNCF says it will do its best to respond to submitted reports within one business day, triage vulnerabilities within 10 days, and pay out a bounty within 10 days from triage.

Kubernetes bug bounty program open to anyone, rewards up to $10,000
2020-01-15 10:31

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is inviting bug hunters to search for and report vulnerabilities affecting Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management.

Public Bug Bounty Takes Aim at Kubernetes Container Project
2020-01-14 17:00

A public bug-bounty program for the Kubernetes container technology framework has just launched, backed by Google, HackerOne and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The program's scope covers code from the main Kubernetes organizations on GitHub, as well as "Continuous integration, release and documentation artifacts," according to a Kubernetes security team post on Tuesday.

Apple Kicks Off Public Bug Bounty Program
2019-12-20 16:26

Apple this week kicked off its public bug bounty program, just over four months after announcing it officially at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. read more

Apple’s Bug Bounty Opens for Business, $1M Payout Included
2019-12-20 14:46

The tech giant is looking for full working exploits with any vulnerability submission.

Apple Opens Its Invite-Only Bug Bounty Program to All Researchers
2019-12-20 05:18

As promised by Apple in August this year, the company today finally opened its bug bounty program to all security researchers, offering monetary rewards to anyone for reporting vulnerabilities in...

NordVPN Launches Bug Bounty Program
2019-12-09 16:44

Virtual private network (VPN) services provider NordVPN on Monday announced the launch of a public bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. The company says it will pay between $100 and...

HackerOne pays $20,000 bounty after breach of own systems
2019-12-09 12:08

In an embarrassing twist, bug bounty platform HackerOne has paid a $20,000 reward to a researcher who reported a security flaw inadvertently caused by one of its staff during… a bug submission.

$5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group
2019-12-09 10:53

Know where Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets is? Can you pry him out of Russia and his Lamborghinis? The biggest ever cybercrook reward awaits!