… with a clumsily worded proposed bill that wouldn’t protect researchers.
Tag Archives: bug disclosure
Google’s Project Zero highlights patch quality with policy tweak
Google’s Project Zero bug-hunting team has tweaked its 90-day responsible disclosure policy to help improve the quality and adoption of vendor patches.
HackerOne pays $20,000 bounty after breach of own systems
In an embarrassing twist, bug bounty platform HackerOne has paid a $20,000 reward to a researcher who reported a security flaw inadvertently caused by one of its staff during… a bug submission.
Uncle Sam opens arms to friendly hackers
All you bug hunters out there are about to get a nice Christmas gift – the US federal government finally wants to hear from you.
How the Linux kernel balances the risks of public bug disclosure
A serious Wi-Fi flaw shows how Linux handles security in plain sight.
Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year
317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree.
Google+ to power down early after second security hole found
Google has disclosed the second security hole in its Google+ social network in three months.
Hacker says USPS ignored serious security flaw for over a year
A security researcher claims the US Postal Service ignored a security flaw affecting 60 million users, until it was contacted by a journalist.
How a cryptocurrency-destroying bug almost didn’t get reported
A researcher recently revealed how he found a bug that could have brought the fourth largest cryptocurrency to its knees – and how he was almost unable to report it.