Saints Bounty Program

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The Air Force announced today that it will launch a bug bounty next month for several of its public-facing websites, allowing hackers to seek out..

107 months ago

TechCrunch Hackers, start your engines

Yelp invites hackers to expose vulnerabilities through bug bounty program

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Hackers, start your engines. Yelp launched a public bug bounty program today, inviting the world's hackers to pick apart its websites and mobile app in..

115 months ago

Techmeme Apple's bug bounty program is a good start, focuses on finding high-quality exploits in a few key areas on iOS and iCloud, will grow and evolve over time (Rich / Securosis Highlights) http://securosis.com/blog/thoughts-on-apples-bug-bounty-program

116 months ago

Techmeme "For now, the new program is also limited to five distinct categories of bugs. The most valuable category — worth up to $200,000 — is vulnerabilities that compromise the secure boot firmware components, cutting at the heart of Apple's hardware pr Read more ... otections. Notably, those vulnerabilities are also particularly useful for jailbreaks. Smaller rewards are available for the extraction of data from the Secure Enclave, extraction of arbitrary code, escaping a sandboxed process, and obtaining unauthorized access to iCloud account data."

Apple is launching an invite-only bug bounty program in September with a few dozen of researchers

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It's one of the last major tech companies to start paying for exploits — Apple is planning a new bug bounty program that will offer cash …

116 months ago

Newsweek 1,400 hackers found 90 ways into Pentagon servers—with permission.

Hackers find 90 vulnerabilities in Pentagon servers as part of bug bounty program

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The bug bounty program was a first for any government agency and came with many caveats.

118 months ago

Newsweek 1,400 hackers found 90 ways into Pentagon servers—with permission.

Hackers find 90 vulnerabilities in Pentagon servers as part of bug bounty program

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The bug bounty program was a first for any government agency and came with many caveats.

118 months ago

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Tor Project launching a bug bounty program with HackerOne, sponsored by Open Technology Fund

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The Tor Project Is Starting a Bug Bounty Program — The Tor Project, the non-profit that maintains software for anonymity on the internet …

123 months ago

Techmeme "Facebook alleges that Wineberg withheld data on the vulnerabilities and overstepped boundaries established by the rules of the company’s bug bounty program. ... [Wineberg] reported the Ruby token issue in the Sensu-based Instagram site on Oct. 21 Read more ... and a day later, he reported that he was able to access the employee accounts. Facebook responded by putting the Sensu site behind a firewall and eventually paying Wineberg a $2,500 bounty."

Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities

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A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures that not only tested the boundaries of the social network's bug bounty program, but also prompted threats of legal and criminal action.

123 months ago

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