Security News

Microsoft offers bug bounties for holes in its identity services
2018-07-18 17:32

Microsoft is asking security researchers to look for and report technical vulnerabilities affecting its identity services and OpenID standards implementations, and is offering bug bounties that...

A Look Inside: Bug Bounties and Pen Testing
2018-05-03 19:57

Threatpost talks to Christie Terrill of Bishop Fox about the pros and cons of using bug bounty programs versus penetration testing for companies.

Oath Pays $400,000 in Bug Bounties in One Day
2018-04-23 10:37

Internet media company Oath paid more than $400,000 in bounties during the H1-415 one-day HackerOne event in San Francisco, where 41 hackers from 11 countries were present. read more

GitHub Paid $166,000 in Bug Bounties in 2017
2018-03-16 17:40

Git repository hosting service GitHub paid a total of $166,495 in rewards in 2017 to security researchers reporting vulnerabilities as part of its four year old bug bounty program. Total payouts...

Facebook Paid $880,000 in Bug Bounties in 2017
2018-01-12 15:54

Facebook received over 12,000 vulnerability submissions in 2017 and ended up paying $880,000 in bug bounties to security researchers. read more

Organizations award hackers up to $900,000 a year in bug bounties (Help Net Security)
2017-06-28 13:30

A new HackerOne report examines over 800 hacker-powered programs from organizations including Airbnb, GitHub, General Motors, Intel, Lufthansa, Nintendo, U.S. Department of Defense, Uber, and...

Crowdsourced security testing and bug bounties (Help Net Security)
2017-06-26 12:30

In the past few years, the bug bounty economy has been growing steadily, with more organizations getting on board every day. In this podcast, Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at High-Tech Bridge, talks about...

Intel, Microsoft Announce New Bug Bounties (Threatpost)
2017-03-15 20:59

Intel and Microsoft announced bug bounties, paying $30,000 and $15,000 respectively for critical vulnerabilities.

Google, Microsoft increase bug bounties (Help Net Security)
2017-03-06 16:40

Bug hunters, rejoice: both Google and Microsoft have announced a considerable increase of the amount they will pay out for information about bugs in their products. Google ups bug bounties for...