Mozilla is raising payouts for the highest impact security flaws found in Firefox and related projects as part of a bug bounty revamp guided by its “more hardened security stance”.
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Teleconferencing app Zoom announced today plans to revamp its bug bounty program as part of its long-term plan to improve the security of its service.
The Tencent Security Response Center (TSRC) is launching an expanded bug-bounty program, via the HackerOne white-hat platform – and the company has increased its top reward to $15,000.
Zoom has fixed a variety of security issues and implemented a 90-day feature freeze in order to focus on privacy and security.
Ethical hacking is swiftly turning into a lucrative spare-time activity — for a small chunk of white-hat hackers at least.
Program is the latest the tech giant has launched that pay users and security researchers to find vulnerabilities in its numerous products.
The Army paid “bug bounty” hackers more than $275,000 for detecting vulnerabilities in popular military websites, which defense officials say is a step toward creating a more secure cyberspace.
A public bug-bounty program for the Kubernetes container technology framework has just launched, backed by Google, HackerOne and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
After falling victim to a data breach back in November, OnePlus promised it would launch a bug bounty program by the end of the year in order to further secure its phones.
New research has revealed that four major data breaches – which cost over £265m in damages cumulatively, could have been prevented for as little as £9600 (collectively) with the use of bug bounty programs.