Security News

Netflix Opens Public Bug Bounty Program with $15K Payout Cap
2018-03-21 22:27

Netflix opens up bug bounty program to all white hat hackers and ups the ante for bugs to as much as $15,000.

Cisco Meraki Offers Up to $10,000 in Bug Bounty Program
2018-03-19 06:27

Cisco Meraki, a provider of cloud-managed IT solutions, announced last week the launch of a public bug bounty program with rewards of up to $10,000 per vulnerability. Cisco Meraki, which resulted...

New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown
2018-03-16 20:15

Microsoft is looking to target new speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities - similar to Spectre and Meltdown - with a new bug bounty program.

Intel Expands Bug Bounty Program Post-Spectre and Meltdown
2018-02-15 22:09

Intel will pay up to $250,000 to researchers who identify bugs more severe than 9.0 on the CVSS scale.

Facebook Increases Bug Bounty Payout After Audit
2018-02-09 19:00

Facebook decided to increase a researcher’s bug bounty payout after discovering that that a bug he reported could lead to account takeover.   read more

Google Expands Play Marketplace Bug Bounty Program
2018-02-07 22:22

The move adds to Google's efforts against malicious apps on the Play store.

Pentagon Hacked in New U.S. Air Force Bug Bounty Program
2017-12-18 15:43

The Hack the Air Force 2.0 bug bounty program kicked off earlier this month with researchers finding a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to gain access to a network of the U.S....

Singapore Ministry of Defence Announces Bug Bounty Program
2017-12-13 16:20

Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has invited roughly 300 white hat hackers from around the world to take part in a two-week bug bounty program targeting eight of its Internet-facing...

Drone Maker DJI, Researcher Quarrel Over Bug Bounty Program
2017-11-17 10:02

China-based Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), one of the world’s largest drone makers, has accused a researcher of accessing sensitive information without authorization after the expert bashed the...

Google Play Store Launches Bug Bounty Program to Protect Popular Android Apps
2017-10-19 11:14

Better late than never. Google has finally launched a bug bounty program for Android apps on Google Play Store, inviting security researchers to find and report vulnerabilities in some of the most...