Sentences with phrase «as a bug bounty»

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Now First State Super has signed on as an investor in Bugcrowd, a San Francisco - based startup that runs bug bounty programs for businesses.

A hacker found a flaw in Facebook, reported it, eventually (and that's the sticky part) got results and then went for the $ 500 he was owed as part of Facebook's own bug - bounty program.

$ 15,000 — Initially heckled for awarding company swag as bounties (a.k.a. T - shirtgate), Yahoo gave Ibrahim Raafat of Egypt its top bounty in 2014 for spotting a bug in Flickr's photo - printing app that left its server and database vulnerable.

As part of bug bounty programs, companies offer cash and other rewards to security researchers or so - called white hat hackers who break into their computer systems and find security holes.

Join a former NSA honcho, one of the world's top bug bounty bosses, and a hacker turned entrepreneur as they dish on what you need to know to protect your network, your data, and your job.

The worse part is that Uber paid the hackers $ 100,000 to keep it a secret, as the company dressed up the incident as part of its bug bounty program.

«Hack the Pentagon» is modeled after similar competitions known as «bug bounties» conducted by many large U.S. companies, including United Continental Holdings Inc (UAL.N), to discover security gaps in their networks.

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.

Uber's bug bounty service - as such a program is known in the industry - is hosted by a company called HackerOne, which offers its platform to a number of tech companies.

At a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee — which sought to explore «bug bounty» programs that reward hackers for finding holes — Democrats and Republicans alike needled the ride - hailing company for withholding information even as it faced a federal investigation for its privacy and security practices.

Through a combination of features such as Google Play Protect and Instant Apps, the bug bounty program, and machine learning, Google says Android 8 «has achieved a strength of protection that now leads the industry.»

Google also paid out more than $ 1.25 million as part of its bug bounty program, but very few of them critical Oreo vulnerabilities.

It will pay anyone who can find new speculative execution vulnerabilities — similar to Meltdown or Spectre — up to $ 250,000 as part of a new bug bounty program.

Microsoft's new bug bounty program is specifically for «speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities» like Spectre and Meltdown which affected Intel chips, as well as AMD and ARM processors in the case of the former.

«Aragon will use the large portion of the funds collected from the token sale to hire talented developers forAragon, while also undertaking extensive quality assurance efforts such as funding audit and bug bounty programs,» concluded Cuende.

The spokesperson also went to say that the company has a bounty bug program that invites people to research and identify bugs and vulnerabilities such as the one exploited by the hackers.