bug bounties

OpenAI To Offer Bug Bounties Up To $20,000

Bug bounty program introduced by OpenAI, to track down and eliminate vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws

2 years ago

Poly Network Hacker Returns All Stolen Tokens, Offered Job

Hacker who stole $610m worth of digital tokens has returned it all, and has been offered a job as 'Chief…

3 years ago

Poly Network Hacker Offered $500,000 To Return Stolen Tokens

Poly Network confirms it offered 'white hat hacker' who stole $611m in digital tokens, a $500,000 bug bounty to return…

3 years ago

Google Reveals ‘New Chapter’ For Bug Bounty Program

Google's 'vulnerability reward program' has found over 11,000 bugs and paid out $29m over past ten years, but now has…

3 years ago

Researcher Releases Steam Vulnerability After Valve Ban

Researcher who clashed with Valve over Steam vulnerability, which then banned him, makes public the flaws

5 years ago

Apple Offers Up To $1m For iPhone Bug Bounty

Opens up bug bounty scheme to all researchers, and increases top financial rewards to $1m for most serious vulnerabilities

5 years ago

Hacker To Live-Stream Hack Of Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page

Big boast. Tune in on Sunday to see if hacker can deliver on promise to hack Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page

6 years ago

Uber Used Bug Bounty Cash To Pay Hacker To Keep Quiet – Report

Taxi service could be back on the naughty step amid allegations it used bug bounty cash as hush money

7 years ago

Bug Found In Google Bug Tracker Database

Discovery of bug in Google's bug tracking database lands researcher $15,600 in bug bounties

7 years ago

Kaspersky Lab Creates Bug Bounty Program

Claims to be first time a security vendor has offered rewards for disclosures of vulnerabilities with its products

8 years ago

Uber Offers “Treasure Map” For Friendly Hackers To Locate Bugs

X marks the spot. Transportation firm offers “treasure map” of computer system for hackers to find vulnerabilities

9 years ago

United Airlines Rewards Hackers With Million Airmiles

Two hackers awarded one million free airmiles each as part of innovative bug bounty scheme

9 years ago

United Airlines Offers Airmiles For Bug Bounty Hackers

Hack our website, but please not our aeroplanes – the invite from United Airlines to friendly hackers

10 years ago

Facebook Doubles Bug Bounty for Advertising Code Flaws

Double payout for discovery of advertising coding flaws demonstrates advertising importance to Facebook

10 years ago

Blackphone And Silent Circle Launch Bug Bounty Programmes

Blackphone and Silent Circle are to reward hackers who report vulnerabilities

10 years ago

Global Bug Bounty Scheme Urged To Tackle Cyber Crime

A new study suggests that all software companies should buy critical code flaws to close cyber-crime vulnerabilities

11 years ago

Microsoft Expands Bug Bounty To Tackle Exploits

Microsoft is a late comer to bug bounties, but now expands the scheme to offer more tempting rewards

11 years ago

Security Research Must Have Its Just Rewards

After T-shirt-gate, Mozilla and Microsoft, can show Yahoo the right way - and the wrong way - to respond to…

11 years ago

Microsoft Signs Up To Bug Bounties With £65,000 Reward

Microsoft has finally joined the bug bounty movement and promises to pay for vulnerability discoveries

11 years ago

Pwn2Own Hackers Down Browsers, Java, Adobe Plug-ins

The annual hacking contest in Canada has successfully compromised Java, Adobe plug-ins, as well as IE10, Firefox and Chrome

12 years ago

Google To Offer Rewards For Chrome OS Hacks

Google has begun a competition offering more than £2m in prize money for those that can hack its Chrome OS

12 years ago

Google Plugs 20 Chrome Security Vulnerabilities

Google has fixed 20 security flaws for the Chrome browser, and also offered up a new tab-synchronisation feature

13 years ago

Google Raises Bug Bounty To £12,394 Per Flaw

Google will pay out up to a maximum of $20,000 (£12,394) per flaw as part of its bug bounty raise

13 years ago

Secunia To Handle Vulnerability Reporting Pain

Secunia is offering an alternative to bug bounties, by handling the vulnerability reporting process

13 years ago

Google Hands Over £16,000 For Chrome Bug Bounties

Google has paid out over £16,000 to bug hunters who uncovered 18 flaws in Chrome 15

13 years ago

Facebook Hands Over £25,000 To Bug Hunters

Facebook has coughed up £25,000 to researchers as part of its newly introduced bug bounty program

13 years ago

Microsoft Opens Cheque Book For Ethical Hackers

Blue hat is the new white hat, as Microsoft offers money to ethical hackers who contribute towards security

13 years ago

Google Hands Over £10,000 For Chrome Fixes

Google has patched 27 security holes in Chrome and rewarded bug hunters with just under £10,000

14 years ago

Facebook Revises Bug Disclosure Policy

In an effort to ease fears that bug submitters could be subject to legal action, Facebook has re-worded its vulnerability…

14 years ago

Bug Bounties: Why The Controversy?

Software companies have offered payment for bugs before. Peter Judge asks why it is any different for security vendors to…

14 years ago