Tesla paid a $10,000 bounty for a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) that had received a patch five days before getting the bug report. The issue was tagged as a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The year was 2016, and Hack the Pentagon had just become the federal ...

Bug bounty programs remain a crucial component of cybersecurity strategies in 2025, offering organizations the ability to draw in help from a diverse pool of cybersecurity professionals and ...

AI research company OpenAI announced today the launch of a new bug bounty program to allow registered security researchers to discover vulnerabilities in its product line and get paid for reporting ...

AI-powered bug hunting has changed the calculus of what makes for an effective bounty program by accelerating vulnerability discovery — and subjecting code maintainers to ballooning volumes of AI flaw ...

It's been about a decade since the hype for bug-bounty programs first started going supernova, but the jury is still out on the effectiveness of them. According to Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of ...

Cloud communications firm Zoom paid out more than $1.8 million in bug bounties in 2021, quadruple the previous year, as the company ramped up its programs for supporting independent vulnerability ...