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Bug bounty hunting writes new income code for techies

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Young IT professionals and self-taught coders are finding an exciting way to earn money, by hacking. But not the illegal kind. These are ethical hackers and they are getting paid ...
Macworld

This bounty hunter reported a critical bug to Apple. He only got $1,000

Security researchers play a crucial role in software development, identifying and discovering vulnerabilities. It’s so important that Apple Security Research runs a Security Bounty Program that offers ...
Computer WeeklyOpinion

Why bug bounty schemes have not led to secure software

Computer Weekly speaks to Kate Moussouris, security entrepreneur and bug bounty pioneer, about the life of security ...
Bleeping Computer

Google paid $12 million in bug bounties last year to security researchers

Google paid almost $12 million in bug bounty rewards to 660 security researchers who reported security bugs through the company's Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2024. Among last year's ...
CSOonline

AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry — for better or worse

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 ...
TechRepublic

AI Bug Hunter Sets Milestone By Claiming Top Spot on HackerOne’s Leaderboard

AI Bug Hunter Sets Milestone By Claiming Top Spot on HackerOne’s Leaderboard Your email has been sent An autonomous AI system called XBOW has outperformed human researchers to become the top-ranked ...