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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...

Microsoft is offering rewards of up to $20,000 for flaws in its Azure DevOps online services and the latest release of the Azure DevOps server.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation on Wednesday announced the launch of a public bug bounty program that covers its websites and mobile applications. read more

The European Union is offering a total of more than €850,000 – nearly $1 million – for vulnerabilities found in 14 widely used free and open source software projects. read more

The government of Singapore this week announced plans to launch a second bug bounty program in collaboration with hacker-powered security platform HackerOne. read more

Don't worry, there are cheques, too DevOps outfit GitLab has opened its bug bounty scheme to world+dog, having paid out $200,000 last year and fixed "nearly 200 vulnerabilities reported to us".…