Two lucky winners scooped $200k for just 30 minutes’ work – if you don’t count the days, weeks and months of meticulous effort beforehand
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Ethical hackers swarm Pentagon websites
Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense’s websites – and DoD officials are quite happy about the whole thing. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog…
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. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by…
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. This post appeared first on Naked…
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. This post appeared first on Naked Security…
Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year
317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree. This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: Lisa Vaas
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? This post appeared first on Naked Security Blog by Sophos Author: Lisa…
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. This post appeared first on Naked Security…