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Threatpost talks to HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos on the EU's funding of open source bug bounty programs, how a company can start a program, and the next generation of bounty hunters.

GitHub is offering unlimited rewards for critical vulnerabilities - and has added "safe harbor" terms to its bug bounty program.

After paying out $250,000 in bug bounties in 2018, GitHub has decided to increase rewards and expand the scope of its bug bounty program. read more

The Swiss government last week announced the launch of a public bug bounty program for its electronic voting systems, with rewards of up to $50,000. read more

Travel search website Skyscanner announced on Wednesday the launch of a public bug bounty program with rewards of up to $2,000 per vulnerability. Skyscanner has been running a private bug bounty...

Interest in bug bounty programs is exploding, as companies look to crowdsourcing to combat hackers. But several misconceptions remain.

Microsoft has launched yet another bug bounty program and is urging security researchers to look into the security of Azure DevOps, its cloud service for collaborating on code development. About...

One common criticism of bug bounty programs is that very few hackers actually make money. Not only is this untrue, but it misses the point.

The Redmond giant is keenly interested in remote code execution and privilege escalation flaws.

Azure DevOps Services invites hackers to test its limits There's more money to be made from bug hunting in Microsoft code after Redmond announced its 10th active bug hunting reward scheme, the...