- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- May 19th, 2017
Zomato Breach Exposes 17M User Records, Makes Deal with Hacker to Destroy Data
All it took for the hacker to agree to destroy all data was the launch of a bug bounty program via HackerOne
- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- May 16th, 2017
WordPress Launches Bug Bounty Program via HackerOne
WordPress is looking for vulnerabilities across all its platforms and sites, hoping white hats can help
- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 15th, 2017
YouPorn Teams Up with HackerOne for Bug Bounty Program, Offers Up to $25,000
YouPorn seeks to make its systems safer for users
- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 8th, 2017
HackerOne Attracts $40M, Plans to Grow Hacking Community
HackerOne uses over 100,000 hackers for bug bounty programs
- Security
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 6th, 2017
Dark Web Marketplace Adopts Bug Bounty Program
Even the dark web needs some white hat hackers
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 19th, 2016
18-Year-Old Teen Hacks the Pentagon Between Classes
DoD's Hack the Pentagon program concludes
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 14th, 2016
Average Bug Bounty Payouts Are Increasing
XSS vulnerabilities accounted for two-thirds of all bug submissions on the Bugcrowd bug bounty platform
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 10th, 2015
Mozilla Increases Rewards for Bug Bounty Program
Valid critical and high severity bugs awarded up to $7,500
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 16th, 2015
Dropbox Sets No Reward Limit for Freshly Deployed Bug Bounty Program
Company offers retroactive payment for bug submission
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 12th, 2015
Western Union Offers $5,000 Top Reward in Publicly Launched Bug Bounty Program
Crowdsourced security model shows real potential
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- January 3rd, 2015
PayPal Complete Account Hijacking Bug Gets Fix, No Award Given
Bug gets fixed when the security team checks PoC
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 25th, 2014
Mozilla Offers Special Bug Bounty Program for Firefox 31
As Firefox 31 release is getting closer, Mozilla wants to weed out all bugs
- Social Networking Related
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 4th, 2014
Facebook Gave Out $1.5 Million in Bug Bounty Program in 2013
The biggest payout was of $33,500 for a severe bug
- Weekly Roundup
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 23rd, 2013
Security Brief: Security Improvements, Bug Bounties and Interesting Hacks
The main events of the week between June 17 and June 23
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 22nd, 2013
Experts Share Opinion on Microsoft’s New Bug Bounty Programs
Many are unhappy that the program is limited to certain types of security holes
