Sentences with phrase «called bug bounty program»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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