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Google awarded a hefty $10,000 bounty to a high school student last week for uncovering a bug that could have let anyone access an internal Google website. Continue reading High Schooler Nets $10,000 For Google Bug
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: US indicts Russian BTC-e ‘mastermind’; Blu still phoning home; bug bounty offers $250k
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: PCs’ PCs still running XP; bug-hunters cashing in; airport security stepped up
Source Boston keynoter Keren Elazari sounded a call to action for industry to extend an acceptance of hackers. Continue reading The Time Has Arrived to Embrace Hackers
The U.S. Air Force launched a new bug bounty program dubbed “Hack the Air Force” on Wednesday, continuing a trend within the U.S. military that began last year with Hack the Pentagon and Hack the Army. Before the Pentagon’s bug bounty programs launched, it was illegal to search for vulnerabilities on Defense Department networks. The trend has extended overseas, as well, with the U.K. government’s announcement of its own bug bounty program last month. The Air Force program is directed by HackerOne, the bug bounty platform behind Hack the Pentagon that just raised a $40 million investment in February, and Luta Security, the security consulting firm driving the U.K. program. HackerOne and Luta Security are partnering to deliver up to 20 bug bounty challenges over three years to the Defense Department. “This outside approach — drawing on the talent and expertise of our citizens and partner-nation citizens — in identifying our security vulnerabilities will […]
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Nintendo is offering up to $20,000 to white hat hackers who report critical vulnerabilities that could be used to hack its new Switch console. Continue reading Nintendo Hackers Told Us $20,000 Bug Bounties Aren’t Going to Stop Piracy
Nintendo is offering up to $20,000 to white hat hackers who report critical vulnerabilities that could be used to hack its new Switch console. Continue reading Nintendo Hackers Told Us $20,000 Bug Bounties Aren’t Going to Stop Piracy
The Fappening 2.0 is upon us, hackers escape VMware, thieves are caught using facial recognition software, and more. Don Pezet of ITPro.TV joins us to deliver expert commentary on creating secure online backups! Full Show Notes Visit http://hacknaked.t… Continue reading March 21, 2017 – Hack Naked News #116
GitHub awarded $18,000 to a researcher after he came across a remote code execution bug in the company’s enterprise management console. Continue reading GitHub Code Execution Bug Fetches $18,000 Bounty
Google is increasing the bounties it pays independent researchers for finding the most serious kinds of security flaws and vulnerabilities in its software, a company executive said in a blog post from a Indian security conference. “Because high severity vulnerabilities have become harder to identify over the years, researchers have needed more time to find […]
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