Registration for the federal government’s premier bug bounty program is officially up and running. The pilot program will allow hackers who are cleared through a criminal background check to look for security bugs and vulnerabilities in certain U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) systems, ZDNet reported...
PayPal thwarted a security vulnerability that would have enabled malicious emails to be sent from its platform thanks to its bug bounty program. The issue was patched after it was revealed by researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri of German firm Vulnerability Lab, which found the application-side...
If we were to tell you that today hackers are walking around with a few million frequent flyer miles care of United Airlines, your first thought might be that they had been the victims of a data breach at the hand of cybercriminals. And though...
May 05, 2016
Facebook made a $10,000 payment to a 10-year-old Instagram hacker. The boy found a glitch in the picture-sharing social platform’s code and was rewarded significantly by Facebook for the discovery. The child now holds the record for the youngest recipient of Facebook’s bug bounty program, Reuters reported on Wednesday (May 4). “I wanted to see […]
April 05, 2016
Registration for the federal government’s premier bug bounty program is officially up and running. The pilot program will allow hackers who are cleared through a criminal background check to look...
April 01, 2016
PayPal thwarted a security vulnerability that would have enabled malicious emails to be sent from its platform thanks to its bug bounty program. The issue was patched after it was...
July 16, 2015
If we were to tell you that today hackers are walking around with a few million frequent flyer miles care of United Airlines, your first thought might be that they...
