Not exact matches
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.
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.
The bad news: Researchers at Tenable, a
security firm,
found a serious
bug in code from Schneider Electric, which has issued a fix after being given a heads - up about the problem.
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.
Appertaining to rapid eLearning software, random unannounced
security updates /
bug fixes / improvements on browsers only underscore the importance of choosing a company that you feel you can (learn to) trust to
find solutions to problems; I feel an addendum is required here however, in life, love, and IT, trust has to be earned (over time).
For example, one of our best selling microlearning courses is Microsoft Excel, which is subject to software iteration, improvements,
bug fixes, and
security patches, and we often
find ourselves re-publishing certain module segments.
The first release of the code on Google's own code repository resulted in payouts to hackers who
found two
security bugs.
Is there any law which protects an Ethical Hacker for helping to
find out
bugs and
security loopholes in online / digital services being used by a corporation / government agency?
In the IT / Programming
security world, usually people contact the vendor / owner of a particular software if they
find a
bug or
security vulnerability and give them time to patch it before releasing the
bug or vulnerability for public scrutiny / awareness.
... 2010, when it began paying
security researchers to
find flaws in its programs, Google has paid more than US$ 4 million to
bug hunters.
Facebook is rolling out a twist on its
security bug bounty that will reward individuals for
finding data misuse.
Security researcher Paolo Stagno, who goes by the pseudonym VoidSec,
found that approximately 20pc of today's VPN solutions leak the user's IP address via a WebRTC
bug known since January 2015.
Leading up to the announcement of its latest flagship, OnePlus was repeatedly in the news for different
bugs and
security loopholes
found on some of its handsets.
Whenever I try to
find custom ROMs I end up
finding unofficial ROMs compiled by xda members which have
bugs most times and can not be trusted for
security.
As most of you are already well aware, Google pushes out a monthly update to Pixel and supported Nexus devices which fixes any
security bugs that were
found in the past month.
As explained in a lengthy post on its Project Zero blog, the
security team ran an internal contest for a week, with two teams of researchers tasked to
find bugs in Samsung's code that could be used by attackers for malicious purposes.
According to an article by Lorenzo Franceschi - Bicchierai at Motherboard, this morning Google released a powerful tool that helps
security researchers hack into (and
find bugs in) iOS 11.1.2.
A
security researcher who hunts
bugs for a living says that Google won't acknowledge one of his
findings.
As you're no doubt aware, this is a continued monthly effort from Google to address any and all software - related
security bugs that are
found within Android from experts all around the tech world.