In an attempt to sniff out bugs in its Azure cloud platform, Microsoft announced at Black Hat USA 2019 on Monday that it will offer rewards of up to $300,000 for researchers who launch successful test exploits for the platform. Microsoft has Read More …
Dropbox has uncovered 264 vulnerabilities, paying out $319,300 in bounties, after a one-day bug hunt in Singapore that brought together hackers from 10 nations around the world. Hosted by bug bounty platform HackerOne, the live event saw 45 of its Read More …
Exploit vendor Zerodium announced today plans to pay a whopping $500,000 for zero-days in popular cloud technologies like Microsoft’s Hyper-V and (Dell) VMware’s vSphere. Both Hyper-V and vSphere are what experts call virtualization software, also called hypervisors –software that lets Read More …
Hyatt Hotels has launched a bug bounty program in light of recent card-skimming attacks against the hospitality chain. On Wednesday, the company said the new initiative will be hosted on bug bounty program HackerOne and is designed to allow Hyatt Read More …
Well, there’s some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage Read More …
The European Union will foot the bill for bug bounty programs for 14 open source projects, EU Member of Parliament Julia Reda announced this week. The 14 projects are, in alphabetical order, 7-zip, Apache Kafka, Apache Tomcat, Digital Signature Services Read More …
The Hack the Air Force 3.0 bug bounty program organized in collaboration with HackerOne has been announced by the U.S. Air Force to take place from October 19 to November 5. “Up to 600 eligible applicants will be invited to Read More …
The news comes shortly after the DoD was called out for having rampant bugs in its weapons systems. The Department of Defense is expanding its “Hack the Pentagon” bug-bounty program to include hardware assets, tapping the Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd Read More …
Nearly 150 security vulnerabilities have been discovered in US Marine Corps websites and related services during a bug bounty challenge that saw ethical hackers awarded over $150,000. Hack The Marine Corps is the sixth public bounty program by the US Read More …
Microsoft today launched a new bug bounty program for bug hunters and researchers finding security vulnerabilities in its “identity services.” Hacking into networks and stealing data have become common and easier than ever but not all data holds the same Read More …