Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after ...

The institution of the Safe Harbor Policy and Bug Bounty Program should be a welcome note for those with the right set of skills, as it tries to incentivize responsible cybersecurity disclosures for g ...

Skilled professionals who can safeguard systems and networks are more important than ever. Businesses and organizations are on the lookout for experts who can spot vulnerabilities, fend off attacks, ...

In software development, bugs in the code are inevitable. That’s why companies push out software updates so often. But there is a specific kind of bug that is especially worrisome, something called a ...

You don’t know a bug bounty hunter until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes—and spent a week on their PC trying to detect vulnerabilities in exchange for big bucks. Companies are doling out big ...

Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services. Though this is lower than the $12 ...

AI-powered bug hunting has changed the calculus of what makes for an effective bounty program by accelerating vulnerability discovery — and subjecting code maintainers to ballooning volumes of AI flaw ...

International sanctions, IT isolation, and shifting attitudes to ethical hacking have bug bounty programs on the rise in Russia, with zero-day acquisition companies potentially poised to profit.