The Department of Homeland Security has issued a solicitation for companies to provide crowdsourced vulnerability assessment services—including for competitions and live events—for phase two of the ...

What would you do if you checked your bank account and found it had been unexpectedly padded with a quarter of a million dollars? Seems like a farfetched scenario, except it actually happened to a ...

SpaceX patched the flaw, which exposed personal data and 'had potential for broader impact.' ...

What is Hack The Army? Hack The Army is a “bug bounty” program that builds on the efforts of Army and Department of Defense security professionals in safeguarding DoD and Army networks, systems and ...

Interview with Douglas Day, member of the Hacker Advisory Board at HackerOne and a full-time professional hacker.

Compared to most companies, Apple has traditionally been somewhat stingy when it comes to rewarding individuals who unearth iPhone exploits. More recently, though, Apple has come to the realization ...

Cosmos Network’s Evmos blockchain averted disaster after a researcher discovered a vulnerability that could halt DApps. A Web3 security researcher earned a bounty reward of $150,000 by reading Cosmos ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — When Uber’s former security head Joe Sullivan first raised the idea of treating a serious 2016 data breach as a “bug bounty,” software engineer Daniel Borges thought it was a neat ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 29: A Microsoft corporate logo hangs on the side of their office building on Eighth Avenue on April 29, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Updated, Jan.

Former bounty hunter Steven Walbroehl says companies sometimes downplay bug discoveries and refuse to pay bounties, claiming that the bugs were not critical. Hacks remain common in the crypto space, ...