Skilled professionals who can safeguard systems and networks are more important than ever. Businesses and organizations are on the lookout for experts who can spot vulnerabilities, fend off attacks, ...

You don’t know a bug bounty hunter until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes—and spent a week on their PC trying to detect vulnerabilities in exchange for big bucks. Companies are doling out big ...

AI-powered bug hunting has changed the calculus of what makes for an effective bounty program by accelerating vulnerability discovery — and subjecting code maintainers to ballooning volumes of AI flaw ...

The institution of the Safe Harbor Policy and Bug Bounty Program should be a welcome note for those with the right set of skills, as it tries to incentivize responsible cybersecurity disclosures for g ...

Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after ...

Salesforce’s long-running bug bounty programme continues to pay dividends to both the organisation’s customers and its growing network of ethical hackers, as the software giant announces it has now ...

International sanctions, IT isolation, and shifting attitudes to ethical hacking have bug bounty programs on the rise in Russia, with zero-day acquisition companies potentially poised to profit.

The man who launched both of the security industry’s major bug bounty programs today defended the idea of paying for vulnerabilities, but also said he has responded to critics by putting a tighter lid ...

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Governments should make software companies liable for developing insecure computer code. So says Katie Moussouris, the white hat hacker and security expert who first persuaded Microsoft and the ...