Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense’s websites – and DoD officials are quite happy about the whole thing.
Tag Archives: bug bounties
Android gets September update as price of flaws soars
When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.
Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps
Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]
More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders
The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.
VLC media player gets biggest security update ever
Maintainers of the world’s most popular open source media player, VLC, has issued the biggest single set of security fixes in the program’s history.
Apple gets bug for free, while world sees first $1m bug hunter
An Argentinian has garnered $1m in bug bounties, while a German researcher has given up on getting any bounty at all from Apple.
Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year
317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree.
Zerodium’s waving fatter payouts for zero-day bug hunters
Any chance we could appeal to your conscience and integrity and put in a call for ethical disclosure?
EU to offer nearly $1m in bug bounties for open-source software
Rewards on 15 bug bounty programs start at $28,600 and include open source software such as KeePass, FileZilla, Drupal and VLC media player.
Baby, you can hack my car: researchers take over a Jeep from 10 miles away
Two renowned security researchers have discovered a way to remotely hack into and take over a Jeep Cherokee, controlling the brakes and accelerator as well as other components. 