HP launches printer bug bounty program with Bugcrowd
HP, the Palo Alto, California tech giant, announced Tuesday it will be inviting white hat hackers to probe its printers for bugs that attackers could exploit for malicious purposes. Shivaun Albright, HP’s chief technologist of print security, described the program as complementary to existing security features built into HP printers. “We have some features in our devices to detect when attacks occur,” Albright told CyberScoop. “But if you look at it, recognizing that a device can it protect against all current and future attacks, what we wanted to do was go beyond what’s happening in the industry.” The HP printer bug bounty program will be managed by Bugcrowd, a prominent bug bounty platform. HP’s program will be private, meaning researchers who already have some experience with Bugcrowd will be invited to join. Albright said the program will be a pilot that could lead HP to open it up to the […]
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