A small team was being bombarded with submissions, many of which were low-quality, or AI-generated.

Over the past years, the author of the cURL project, [Daniel Stenberg], has repeatedly complained about the increasingly poor ...

Apple has long been the holdout among technology companies offering hackers rewards for finding and reporting software vulnerabilities, but the company recently decided to change course. Apple on ...

Software providers continue to rely on community support to help them identify code mistakes that can lead to malicious attacks. Bug bounty programs remain a crucial component of cybersecurity ...

Governments should make software companies liable for developing insecure computer code. So says Katie Moussouris, the white hat hacker and security expert who first persuaded Microsoft and the ...

Salesforce’s long-running bug bounty programme continues to pay dividends to both the organisation’s customers and its growing network of ethical hackers, as the software giant announces it has now ...

You don’t know a bug bounty hunter until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes—and spent a week on their PC trying to detect vulnerabilities in exchange for big bucks. Companies are doling out big ...

Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services. Though this is lower than the $12 ...

Bug bounty programs can be a big boon to software security and provide expanded vulnerability visibility, but they're not for all organizations and can come with risks. Bug bounty programs, which ...

Microsoft has announced a bug bounty program for its open-source election software ElectionGuard, allowing researchers to uncover vulnerabilities and help bolster election security. Available as a ...