Hosts
bug bounty programs for companies including General Motors, Starbucks, Spotify, Airbnb, Uber, and Wordpress.
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.
Now First State Super has signed on as an investor in Bugcrowd, a San Francisco - based startup that runs
bug bounty programs for businesses.
Thoughts about Nintendo's
bug bounty program for the Switch?
Google has been facilitating
a bug bounty program for years now, but mostly for its proprietary apps.
The bill, which senators have hinted at for several months, would push federal agencies to share election security information with state and local officials, establish voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for election systems, and create a federal
bug bounty program for voting machines and other election infrastructure.
Not exact matches
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3DS.
That's according to a posting by the company on HackerOne, which signals that Nintendo is expanding its
bug bounty program it originally commenced on the 3DS, where it asked people to scour
for possible vulnerabilities.
At this stage of our
bug bounty program, it's uncommon
for us to see many of the common web security
bugs like XSS.
The researchers submitted their finding via Ethereum's
bug bounty program, a
program that rewards individuals
for submitting
bugs.
Jameson also mentioned rebooting the
bounty program, through which developers can earn bitcoin
for detecting and reporting
bugs.
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.
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
Program for Edge - but this is the first time that the company has established a complete
program across its Windows operating
program across its Windows operating system.
Netflix had been accepting flaw reports
for the last five years from researchers and ethical hackers through their private
bug bounty program and responsible disclosure setups.
«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.