bug bounty

HP expands its Bug Bounty Program to focus on office-class print cartridge security vulnerabilities

October 2, 2020

HP has expanded its Bug Bounty Program to focus specifically on office-class print cartridge security vulnerabilities. The program underscores HP’s commitment to delivering …

Study of global hackers and the economics of security research

June 25, 2020

Human ingenuity supported by actionable intelligence were found to be critical ingredients to maintaining a resilient infrastructure, Bugcrowd reveals. In fact, 78% of hackers …

Microsoft announces limited Azure Sphere bug bounty program

May 6, 2020

Microsoft has announced a new security research / bug bounty program aimed at testing and improving the security of Azure Sphere, its comprehensive IoT security solution. The …

Full-time bug hunting: Pros and cons of an emerging career

April 7, 2020

Being a bug hunter who discloses their discoveries to vendors (as opposed to selling the information to the highest bidder) has been and is an ambition of many ethical …

Microsoft invites gamers and researchers to new Xbox bug bounty program

January 31, 2020

Gamers, security researchers, and technologists have been invited to identify security vulnerabilities in Xbox network and services and report them to Microsoft. Bounty …

Kubernetes bug bounty program open to anyone, rewards up to $10,000

January 15, 2020

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is inviting bug hunters to search for and report vulnerabilities affecting Kubernetes. Offered bug bounties range between $100 to …

Google ups bug bounties for Android flaws, exploits

November 22, 2019

Google has expanded the Android Security Rewards (ASR) program and increased the bug bounties it’s willing to award for certain kinds of exploits. About the Android …

GitHub Security Lab aims to make open source software more secure

November 15, 2019

GitHub, the world’s largest open source code repository and leading software development platform, has launched GitHub Security Lab. “Our team will lead by …

Google will pay for data abuse reports related to popular Android apps, Chrome extensions

August 30, 2019

Google is expanding the Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) to include all apps in Google Play with 100 million or more installs, and is launching a new Developer Data …

Apple expands bug bounty program, opens it to all researchers, raises rewards

August 9, 2019

Three years ago at the Black Hat conference, Apple announced its first bug bounty program, which was invite-only and limited to iOS. At this year’s edition of the con, …

Microsoft sets up isolated environment for bug hunters to test attacks against Azure

August 6, 2019

Microsoft has some very good news for bug hunters: not only has the company doubled the top bounty reward for vulnerabilities discovered in its Azure cloud computing service, …

Google increases bounties for Chrome, Google Play bugs

July 22, 2019

Bug hunters searching for security flaws in Google’s offerings are now vying for higher bounties. Microsoft has launched a new bug bounty program. Google’s changes …