Facebook has launched a security bug bounty program through which it will pay security researchers for discovering and privately reporting vulnerabilities in its platform.Back in May we were the first to report that Facebook intends to create a security rewards program for whitehat hackers, a plan the company's ... |
29 July 2011
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Facebook is working on setting up a bug bounty program that would encourage security researchers to discover vulnerabilities on its platform and report them responsibly.Mr. Joe Sullivan, Facebook's chief security officer, told us today at the Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2011 security conference that the company is... |
19 May 2011
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Chrome 8.0.552.334 was released as a security update for the stable channel of Google's increasingly popular browser and contains fixes for a flurry of vulnerabilities.In total, there were sixteen security issues patched, two of which were rated with medium risk, thirteen with high and one with critical.The crit... |
13 January 2011
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Mozilla has extended its security bug bounty program to also reward the discovery of Web vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection (SQLi) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF), in its websites.Mozilla's vulnerability reward program, one of the first of its kind, was originally limited to only... |
15 December 2010
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Google has pushed Chrome 8.0.552.224 as a security update to the stable and beta channels in order to address several vulnerabilities, including high risk ones.In total there were five vulnerabilties fixed, two of which were rated with a high severity level, two with medium and one with low.One high impact vulnerabil... |
14 December 2010
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Google plans to award over $20,000 for bug reports received from security researchers during the first week after its Web vulnerability reward program was launched.The company is very happy with the response it got so far, even though it admits its review panel was somewhat generous and also rewarded low severity bug... |
16 November 2010
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Google has launched a new vulnerability reward program, modeled after the existent Chromium one, which promises to reward security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in many of its online services.The reward program will cover any Google Web properties that handle "highly sensitive authenticated user data or acc... |
2 November 2010
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Google has released new security updates through the Chrome stable channel in order to address several critical and high risk vulnerabilities, two of which were rewarded with special $1,337 prizes.The new 5.0.375.127 update is still silently being pushed to users, so details about some of the fixed bugs were temporar... |
20 August 2010
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Google has increased the maximum amount of money offered as reward to researchers discovering security bugs in Chrome to $3,133.7. The change comes after last week Mozilla raised the value of its own vulnerability bounty to $3,000.Google launched the Chromium Security Reward program back in January, when it announced... |
21 July 2010
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Mozilla announces that it has brought its security bounty program in line with the new economic times and has increased the reward paid to researchers for eligible security bugs from $500 to $3,000. It has also officially added Firefox Mobile and other Mozilla services to the list of products covered by the program.M... |
16 July 2010
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