Carter mentioned that the government is already adopting some Silicon Valley practices like its recently
announced bug bounty program in which the government offers rewards to altruistic hackers who can crack into the Pentagon's computer systems.
Not exact matches
These programs, which involve companies paying hackers to disclose software vulnerabilities, are becoming nearly universal — even Apple, a longtime hold, finally
announced the creation of a
bug bounty system last month (and already a private firm said it will pay more for the same information).
Another change the company
announces on this day is that it will expand its
bug bounty program to enable people to report misuse of data.
First
announced amid a slew of updates Zuckerberg offered up in March as the scandal around abuse of user data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was first coming to light, the new
bounty program is modeled off of Facebook's attempts to combat hackers with a $ 1 million
bug bounty.
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, Facebook has
announced important changes to its app platform, along with improvements to its official
bug bounty program that will incentivize and reward security researchers for hunting down third - party Facebook apps that misuse user data.
Earlier this summer United
announced the new «
bug bounty program,» which will reward hackers that discover systems vulnerabilities with between 50,000 and 1 million MileagePlus reward miles.
In 2010, Google
announced it would start paying hackers «
bug bounties» if they turned over security holes and problems in its systems.
In an early March announcement, Bugcrowd, a startup that conducts
bug «
bounty» programs for enterprises,
announced a $ 26 million capital raise led by Triangle Peak Partners.
To ensure similar exploits do not go unchecked in the future, the software giant has
announced a new
bug bounty program focused on speculative execution attacks and vulnerabilities.
Ethereum mobile wallet startup Status
announced a hardware wallet and
bug bounty program during the Devcon3 conference today.
Ethereum mobile wallet Status, which recently raised more than $ 100 million in a token sale, has
announced a $ 1 million
bug bounty.
Netflix today
announced it is opening a
bug bounty program to the public, allowing anyone who finds a
bug or critical issue to provide details on that issue and possibly receive a financial reward — often dictated by the severity of the issue — in return.
Netflix
announced in a Medium post today that it is opening a public
bug bounty program on the Bugcrowd
bug bounty platform.
Exscudo, the financial ecosystem which unites cryptocurrency markets and traditional finance is happy to
announce the beginning of the
bug bounty program.
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, Facebook has
announced important changes to its app platform, along with improvements to its official
bug bounty program that will incentivize and reward security researchers for hunting down third - party Facebook apps that misuse user data.
The expanded
bug bounty program rules are only one of the many other measures Facebook
announced this week.
The European Commission has
announced its first - ever
bug bounty program, and is calling on hackers to find vulnerabilities in VLC, a...
Hacken, an ecosystem for white hat hackers and a
bug bounty marketplace with a focus on blockchain security,
announces an unprecedented additional bonus weekend inspired by John McAfee.
Like other tech giants, Microsoft has offered
bounties for some time, and recently
announced the indefinite extension of its
Bug Bounty Program for Edge - but this is the first time that the company has established a complete program across its Windows operating system.
Netflix
announced this week that it has made its
bug bounty program public and is inviting researchers all around the world to participate.
Hacken, an ecosystem of white - hat hackers and a
bug bounty marketplace with a focus on blockchain security,
announces its crowdsale is set to start on October 31.
Last month, in the face of accusations that it's downplayed the extent and severity of the speculative execution flaws in its CPUs, Intel
announced that it was expanding its existing
bug bounty program, launched in March 2017 via HackerOne, so that it would no longer be invitation - only (see Intel Faces 32 Spectre / Meltdown Lawsuits).
Microsoft, following a similar move by Intel, has
announced that until the end of this year, it will be offering
bug bounties of up to $ 250,000 for information leading to the successful identification of speculative execution attacks (see Expect More Cybersecurity «Meltdowns»).