Well, there’s some good news for hackers and bug bounty hunters!
Both tech giants Google and Microsoft have raised the value of the payouts they offer security researchers, white hat hackers and bug hunters who find high severity flaws in their products.
While Microsoft has just doubled its top reward from $15,000 to $30,000, Google has raised its high reward from $20,000 to $31,337, which
HackerOne announced a free version of its platform for open source projects.
A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in Facebook that could allow attackers to delete any video of the social networking site shared by anyone on their wall.
The flaw has been discovered by security researcher Dan Melamed in June 2016, allowing him not only to remotely delete any video on Facebook shared by anyone without having any permission or authentication but
A bug bounty hunter earned $5,000 for a Facebook hack that allowed him to bypass security protection and access any Facebook user’s true email address.
Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnonen found a second stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail in less than a year, both of which earned him $10,000 bug bounties.
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Researchers were able to remotely brake Tesla model cars as well as freeze control panels and open the rear hatch while driving.
The news of the week is discussed, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize.
Yelp today announced a public bug bounty, which will pay up to $15,000 for critical vulnerabilities found on its mobile and desktop sites, public API and other areas of its infrastructure.
Kaspersky Lab today at Black Hat USA 2016 announced the launch of a public bug bounty, one of the few offered by a software vendor in the computer security industry.