Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2023
Microsoft announced this week it will pay up to $20,000 for security vulnerabilities in its Defender products. Microsoft launched its new Microsoft Defender Bounty Program with a focus on Defender products and services. The company will pay up to $20,000 for the vulnerabilities in its Defender products. The bug bounty program starts with Defender for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2023
HackerOne announced that it has awarded over $300 million bug hunters as part of its bug bounty programs since the launch of its platform. HackerOne announced that it has surpassed $300 million in total all-time rewards on the HackerOne platform. Thirty white hat hackers have earned more than one million dollars submitting vulnerabilities through the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2023
Google introduced Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program), a new bug bounty program for reporting vulnerabilities in its mobile applications. Google announced a new bug bounty program, named Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program), that covers its mobile applications. Google’s Mobile VRP is a bug bounty program for reporting vulnerabilities in first-party Android applications developed or maintained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2023
A researcher disclosed technical details of a two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Instagram and Facebook. The researcher Gtm Manoz received a $27,000 bug bounty for having reported a two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Instagram and Facebook. The flaw resides in a component used by the parent company Meta for confirming a phone number and email […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2022
The US Department of Defense (DoD) shared the results of the Hack US bug bounty program that took place in July. On July 4, 2022, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and HackerOne started the Hack US, a one-week bug bounty challenge, which is considered part of DoD’s vulnerability disclosure program (VDP). The challenge was launched Chief […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2022
Google this week launched a new bug bounty program that covers the open source projects of the IT giant. Google launched a new bug bounty program as part of the new Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) that covers the source projects of the IT giant. The company will pay up to $31,337 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2022
Apple paid +$100K bounty for a macOS series of flaws that can allow threat actors to take over the microphone and camera. Apple last year addressed multiple macOS vulnerabilities discovered by the security researcher Ryan Pickren in the Safari browser that could allow threat actors to access users’ online accounts, microphone, and webcam. Pickren received […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2021
The DHS has announced that it is expanding the ‘Hack DHS’ bug bounty program to report for Log4J impacting its systems. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that white hat hackers can now report the impact of the Log4J on its systems as part of the ‘Hack DHS‘ bug bounty program. Below is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2021
Google is going to increase the bounty for finding and exploiting privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Good news for white hat hackers, Google is going to increase the bounty for demonstrating privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The payouts for privilege escalation exploits using a known vulnerability will be up to US$31,337, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2021
Code repository hosting service GitHub announced that it has paid out more than $1.5 million through its bug bounty program since 2016. Code repository hosting service GitHub announced that it has paid $524,250 through its bug bounty program for 203 vulnerabilities affecting its products and services in 2020. The company revealed that it paid more than $1.5 million […]
