bug bounty
The rise and rise of bug bounty hunting
More than anything, Sergey Toshin wanted to gun a Ford Mustang up and down an American highway. It was a…
Hackers Welcome! US Gov’t to Demand Agencies Have White Hat-Friendly Vuln. Disclosure Policy
CISA, the US government's cybersecurity agency, has published a draft directive requiring all civilian agencies to establish a security researcher-friendly…
Invitation Only “Azure Security Lab” Will Pay Out $300k for VM Escapes
Microsoft says it is launching a sandbox dubbed the "Azure Security Lab" that will pay out $300,000 to security researchers…
Meet the World’s First $1 Million Bug Bounty Hunter
Meet Santiago Lopez, a 19-year-old, self-taught hacker from Argentina who has become the world's first hacker to make $1 million…
Microsoft Bug Bounty Programme Expands to Azure DevOps
Crowd-sourced security is all the rage (albeit increasingly controversially in some quarters). Bug bounty hunters, who can get paid for…
Europe to Fund Open Source Software Bug Bounty Programme
From Monday 7 January the European Commission (EC) will start paying out bug bounties to security researchers who find vulnerabilities…
Hack the Gov’t and Tell the NCSC? You’ll Now Get a Pat on the Back
Security researchers who find vulnerabilities in UK government web services can now report them directly to the National Cyber Security…
HP Buys UK’s Apogee in £305 Million Deal
HP has agreed to buy the UK's Apogee - Europe's largest print provider - in a deal that values Apogee…
The Bug Bounty Bonanza
The money paid out to hackers for disclosing vulnerabilities has risen sharply over the past year, a new report shows,…
Hackers Find 65 Bugs in Department of Defense System
A US government bug bounty programme that rewards hackers for identifying vulnerabilities in its systems this week paid out $78,650…