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Bug
The Internet Bug Bounty offers rewards for bugs in data processing libraries

The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a project aimed at finding and fixing vulnerabilities in core internet infrastructure and free open source software, has announced that it will …

WordPress
WordPress announces bug bounty program

WordPress Foundation is the latest organization to publicly announce a bug bounty program set up on the HackerOne platform. What’s in scope of the WordPress bug bounty …

Money
Google, Microsoft increase bug bounties

Bug hunters, rejoice: both Google and Microsoft have announced a considerable increase of the amount they will pay out for information about bugs in their products. Google ups …

Project Springfield: Cloud-based fuzz testing for uncovering million-dollar bugs

This Moday Microsoft debuted Project Springfield, a cloud-based fuzz testing (aka fuzzing) service that the company has been working on for a quite a while. David Molnar and …

Google Nexus
Hack a Nexus from afar, get $200,000

Google has issued a challenge to bug hunters around the world: find a vulnerability or bug chain that achieves remote code execution on multiple Android devices knowing only …

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge
Can a computer system compete against human CTF experts?

DARPA announced on Thursday that a computer system designed by a team of Pittsburgh-based researchers is the presumptive winner of the Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge. The …

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