Sentences with phrase «bug bounty program so»

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Today, hundreds of companies host so - called bug - bounty programs spanning apps, software, and company networks.

Given that serious vulnerabilities take days or weeks to fix, and that mobile phones are an indispensable tool for nearly everyone, the importance of so - called bug bounty programs for cell phones is likely to grow.

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.

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.

Facebook (fb) said this week that it has paid over 900 altruistic hackers more than $ 5 million since the social network debuted its so - called bug bounty program five years ago.

SAN FRANCISCO / WASHINGTON A 20 - year - old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so - called «bug bounty» program normally used to identify small code vulnerabilities, three people familiar with the events have told Reuters.

«Facebook's bug bounty program will expand so that people can also report to us if they find misuses of data by app developers,» said Ime Archibong, VP of Partnerships at Facebook.

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).