Posts Tagged ‘bounty program’

Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program pays out $40,000 in less than a Month

Aug

2011

It has only been 21 days since the Facebook Bug Bounty Program was announced and yet the company has already paid a total of $40,000 to bounty hunters. The program’s aim is to strengthen Facebook’s defense against attacks by fixing bugs within the system. Their strategy is to entice security researchers with the promise of […]

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Bug bounty initiatives: a summer approach against cyberthreats?

Aug

2011

One of the new initiatives is brought to us by Microsoft with what they call the Blue Hat Prize. It is a contest that wants to generate new defensive approaches in the field of computer security. By launching this initiative, MS wants to develop new solutions to resolve security threats. And there are interesting prizes […]

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Microsoft Hunts Bugs with Variation on Bounty

Aug

2011

Bug bounty programs are designed to reward security researchers for finding flaws in a vendor’s product that have made it past their own quality processes. Some organizations, such as Google and Mozilla, have had bug bounty programs in place for a time, while social networking site Facebook just announced a bug bounty program with a […]

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