Adobe, the company behind Flash, Photoshop and Adobe Reader, has launched a program encouraging security researchers to find and report possible vulnerabilities to the firm.
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Facebook has announced that it paid out $1.3 million last year to ‘white hat’ hackers, as part of a bounty initiative that rewards developers for spotting flaws in the social network.
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Facebook released final numbers on 2014 submissions and payouts from its bug bounty program, showing continued growth in both areas.
A Facebook hack that allowed attackers to remotely delete any photo they wanted to from the social network has been patched by the company.
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Google has announced it is to pay out research grants to security researchers seeking out potential bugs, even if they turn up empty-handed, reports ZDNet.
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Popular internet payment provider PayPal has fixed an exploit that would have allowed hackers to take over an account with a single click, reports The Register.
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Google is again increasing the amount of money it offers to researchers who report vulnerabilities in Chrome as part of the company’s bug bounty program. Now, researchers will be able to earn $15,000 at the high end of the scale, and Google also is offering more cash for researchers who can submit a working exploit for […]
SEATTLE–For many years, Microsoft and other large software vendors resisted the idea of providing bug bounties or other financial incentives for researchers to report vulnerabilities. That changed when the landscape began to shift and more researchers began reporting vulnerabilities through brokers or selling them on the open market. While bounties have now become commonplace, simply […]
Drupal released an update that patches a moderately critical cross-site scripting vulnerability in its Mollom content and spam moderation module.
