Bug Bounty stories

$10 million bug bounty fund for projects building on Binance Smart Chain
Tue, 27th Jul 2021
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blockchain
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bug bounty
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ethical hacking
Binance Smart Chain has launched Priority ONE, a $10 million bug bounty fund for projects building on top of BSC.

HackerOne hits $100M milestone with bug bounties
Thu, 28th May 2020
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cybersecurity
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hackers
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bug bounty
“We have arrived at the point in history where you are ignorant and negligent if you do not have a way to receive useful input from ethical hackers."

OPPO partners with bug bounty company HackerOne
Tue, 21st Jan 2020
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smartphones
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endpoint protection
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technology gifts
With over 320 million monthly active users of OPPO’s ColorOS, and a rapidly expanding online presence, cybersecurity is top of mind for the mobile phone manufacturer.

Kaspersky to store data of US and Canada customers in Switzerland
Mon, 18th Nov 2019
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kaspersky
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dc
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bug bounty
The company will also open its first Transparency Center in Latin America in Sao Paulo in January 2020.

Japan’s LINE launches public bug bounty program with HackerOne
Mon, 18th Nov 2019
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bug bounty
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hackerone
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line
One of the biggest messenger apps in the world invites hackers to proactively report security vulnerabilities to enhance cybersecurity.

Interview: Uber's CISO reveals lessons learned from breaches
Mon, 8th Apr 2019
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cybersecurity
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breach prevention
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uber
Uber’s chief information security officer John ‘Four’ Flynn has a career history that many technologists could only dream of.

GitHub's Bug Bounty program gets bigger
Mon, 4th Mar 2019
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app development
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web development
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security vulnerabilities
GitHub’s Bug Bounty program is now five years old and to mark the occasion it has revamped the program’s scope, rewards, and new legal rules.

Swiss Post asks public to hack its e-voting system
Mon, 18th Feb 2019
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online voting
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security vulnerabilities
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bug bounty
Switzerland’s postal service Swiss Post is inviting keen-eyed security experts and white hats to hack its e-voting system.

Skyscanner opens up bug bounty for interested hackers
Thu, 31st Jan 2019
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cybersecurity
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cybercrime
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skyscanner
If you can find a bug in Skyscanner then the company will pay up to US$2,000 per vulnerability.

Uber disguised breach ransom payment as a bug bounty reward
Thu, 29th Nov 2018
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malware
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ransomware
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endpoint protection
“Paying the attackers and then keeping quiet about it afterwards was not, in our view, an appropriate response to the cyber attack."

Bug bounty marketplace in sore need of standardisation – report
Wed, 1st Aug 2018
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report
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bug bounty
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crest
"With a lot of opportunities for bug bounties to go wrong, the maturity required to run a successful programme should not be underestimated."

Uber updates bug bounty terms to stop extortion and unauthorised data collection
Tue, 1st May 2018
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uber
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bug bounty
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hackerone
Any helpful hacker who participates in Uber’s bug bounty program must act in good faith or face legal action.

GitHub boosts bug bounty program & payouts in 2017 with more to come this year
Mon, 19th Mar 2018
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app development
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web development
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security vulnerabilities
GitHub’s Security Bug Bounty program paid out more than US$166,000 in 2017 after a significant payout revamp that doubled amounts across the board.

Not-for-profit Bug Bounty project surpasses major milestone
Fri, 23rd Feb 2018
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malware
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devsecops
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high-tech bridge
The Open Bug Bounty project has reached 100,000 fixed vulnerabilities and is showing no signs of slowing down with changes on the horizon.