Sentences with phrase «bug bounty program in»

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.

Additionally, the Pentagon created a bug bounty program in March to entice hackers to break into its computer systems and networks — and of course tell officials about vulnerabilities so they can fix them.

Not exact matches

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

Hack the Air Force — and get paid $ 12,500: That was the highest reward given out in the second go - round of the Air Force's bug bounty program, which flushed out 3,000 vulnerabilities and paid over $ 100,000 to white hats over a 20 - day period.

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.

When Helsinki - based F - Secure launched a bounty program in November, it included most consumer and corporate products but not bugs on the company's main webpages.

Along with Merijn Terheggen and Rice, they started HackerOne in 2012, to run «bug bounty» programs — which reward hackers for finding security flaws — for Starbucks, GM, Uber, the U.S. Department of Defense, and about 1,000 other organizations.

The idea of enlisting outsiders to find vulnerabilities isn't exactly new — Google's (GOOG) «bug bounty» program pays independent researchers who find security flaws in its products.

He wrote that security researchers in India have received the most number of payouts since Facebook initiated its bug bounty program, followed by the U.S. and Mexico.

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.

Bug bounty programs are designed mainly to give security researchers an incentive to report weaknesses they uncover in a company's software.

HackerOne hosts Uber's bug bounty program but does not manage it, and plays no role in deciding whether payouts are appropriate or how large they should be.

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.

In testimony, Flynn said it was «not done consistent with the way our bug bounty program operates.»

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.

The hacker wasn't a participant in the bug bounty program, Reuters reported, and instead emailed the company demanding money.

In December of 2016, Nintendo launched a program with HackerOne, a service that provides bounties ranging from $ 100 to $ 20,000 for finding bugs and exploits, in order to stamp them out on the 3DIn December of 2016, Nintendo launched a program with HackerOne, a service that provides bounties ranging from $ 100 to $ 20,000 for finding bugs and exploits, in order to stamp them out on the 3Din order to stamp them out on the 3DS.

Facebook also intends to expand its bug bounty program to include misuse of data in third - party apps, which isn't something typically found in this type of program.

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.

Google certainly has a lot of things on its plate right now, including the launch of the Google Play Store bug bounty program and the poor audio quality and screen burn - in issues with the Pixel 2 XL.

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.

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.

In the ICO space, a bounty program is an offer made by many startups which enables individuals to receive compensation for performing marketing tasks, reporting bugs or improving a product or service.

Included in Facebook's plans are the expansion of its bug bounty program to include data privacy violations, which will allow developers and users to report third - party apps found to be harvesting personal information in violation of Facebook's terms.

The European Commission has announced its first - ever bug bounty program, and is calling on hackers to find vulnerabilities in VLC, a...

«Currently, there are no bug bounty programs or vulnerability discovery providers in the world that provide a custom - tailored service like this for blockchain startups.

There's also a $ 100,000 bug - bounty program for anyone who gets in touch with the company to point out a security flaw.

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.

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).