Lucrative financial rewards and the expansion of Internet services are driving a ‘bug-hunting’ bonanza among Nepali youth who have time in their hands during the pandemic lockdowns. Once the exclusive ...

In today's era of cutthroat competition, carving a name for yourself in the field of technology is a major feat. When we talk of Information Technology, one such remarkable name that shines through is ...

An upstart security research firm with a controversial business model is at the center of a debate over how software bugs should be disclosed. Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis (VDA) Labs, founded ...

After a variety of successful bug-hunting pilot programs, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security are boosting efforts to find and fix bugs throughout their digital ...

RISC-V continues to make headlines worldwide, but verification continues to be challenging. The findings of the Wilson Research Report, 2022 (see figure 1) make the trends in verification clear. We ...

In April 2007, when Apple's “I'm a Mac” ads were telling people that Macs can't get hacked, security researcher Dragos Ruiu decided to put the idea to the test – in front of a room full of security ...

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 ...

When discussing AI's broader impact on security, the duo acknowledges the double-edged nature of technologies like "vibe coding" (i.e., using AI to generate code). While large language models (LLMs) ...