Last month two Italian security researchers revealed they had netted more than $46,000 in bug bounties after discovering a misconfiguration vulnerability in Akamai – despite receiving nothing from Akamai itself....
A researcher netted a $10,000 bug bounty reward from GitHub after discovering a way to spoof the platform’s login interface. Saajan Bhujel found a bypass that...
Two Italian security researchers have netted more than $46,000 in bounties for the discovery of an Akamai misconfiguration, despite receiving nothing from Akamai itself. Akamai is...
Google wants to improve the security of its open source projects and those projects’ third-party dependencies by offering rewards for bugs found in them. “Depending on the severity of...
A three-day hackathon held by Yahoo last week uncovered hundreds of security bugs in its text search engine tool Vespa. The event, held in Antwerp, Belgium...
A security researcher has discovered a way to launch code execution attacks by exploiting the GitHub Pages build process. Joren Vrancken netted a $4,000 reward for...
Google will now pay security researchers to find and report bugs in the latest versions of Google-released open-source software (Google OSS). The company’s newly announced Vulnerability...
Bug bounty rewards for the Ethereum blockchain have quadrupled for a two-week period when related to the network’s transition to proof-of-stake. The application of a fourfold...
A security firm has criticized CrowdStrike for operating a “ridiculous” bug bounty disclosure program following a sensor flaw report. In April, Pascal Zenker, a partner of...
A new program is aiming to reward developers and security researchers who make improvements to critical infrastructure based on open source technology. The Secure Open Source...
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