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Apple Offers $2M Bounty to Anyone Who Can Crack its iOS 16 ‘Lockdown’ Mode!
At some point within the next 4-12 weeks, Apple is expected to announce the official consumer release of its latest iOS 16 operating system. While this will, of course, bring about a lot of new key changes and overall improvements, however, one of the most interesting new features will be…
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Facebook Launches New Oculus Quest Bug Bounty Program
Bug bounty programs have for many years represented an excellent means for software and hardware developers to attempt to discover any potential security flaws within their products. For those of you unaware of what these are, they effectively open up doors to hackers around the world to attempt to find…
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Valve Pays Researcher $7,500 For Finding Unlimited Steam Wallet Bug
As you may be aware, many online companies offer bug bounty programs to people known as white hat hackers. The basic premise of this is that although they do their own in-house security testing (or at least they should), it’s often far more cost-effective and successful to simply open to…
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Microsoft Confirms $13.6M Paid to Bug Bounty Hunters
For several years now, Microsoft has run one of the arguably most lucrative bug bounty hunting programs in the tech world. Put simply, if you know your way around code and think you’ve found a vulnerability within any program or software they’ve created, Microsoft will pay you to tell them…
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Sony Launches a Huge PlayStation Bug Bounty Program
How are your hacking skills? Do you fancy putting them to the test? Well, following an official post, Sony is looking for ‘white hat hackers’ to attempt to find vulnerabilities in either their PlayStation 4 operating system or their PlayStation Network. Better still, if you find a fault, depending on…
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Microsoft Offers $20,000 Bug Bounty for Xbox Live
It’s not unusual practice to see companies occasionally (and sometimes regularly) run bug bounty programs. If you’re not familiar with the concept, then let me explain. Put simply, it’s effectively a challenge to ‘ethical hackers‘ to see if they can identify any security flaws in a piece of software. If…
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Man Given $20,000 For Discovering Steam Download Bug
Man Given $20,000 For Discovering Steam Download Bug Many companies offer ‘bounty’ rewards to people who can find serious errors or flaws in the design of their program. With such incentives aimed towards ‘white hat hackers’, the concept is to incentivise people with a clear talent to put their code-breaking…
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HP Offer $10,000 For Researchers To Break Their Security
HP Launch $10,000 Bounty If You Can Break Its Printer Software We have seen in recent years that one of the best ways to see just how well your software is designed is to offer it to the public to see if they can break it. We have seen many…
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1Password Offers $100k Bounty to Crack its Security
In a show of either confidence in its own security or eagerness to ensure the integrity of its system, developer AgileBits has quadrupled the highest bounty for finding bugs within its password manager 1Password to a whopping $100,000. While 1Password managed to escape Cloudflare’s Cloudbleed fault last month, despite using…
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Researcher Finds Bug That Allowed Free Uber Rides
Bug bounty programs can be a lucrative income source for white-hat hackers and it was so for security researcher Anand Prakash who discovered a huge flaw in the Uber’s system. The flaw would essentially let people abusing it book rides for which they never have to pay. The bug was…
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Player Places $75,000 Bounty on Rival EVE Online Corporation!
I love a good competitive game, I even dip my toe into the world of online MMOs from time to time, but I’m far far faaaaaaaar away from taking my games as seriously as people seem to with EVE Online. We’ve already had books written about a battle in EVE it…
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Apple Starts Invite Only Bug-Bounty Program
Companies are looking at increasing their security, working on finding and dealing with problems as they occur. One way companies are looking at addressing these issues is through bug-bounty programs. Apple is looking at starting to their own while but with an invite-only twist. Apple’s new scheme was announced at…
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10 Year Old Hacks Instagram – Gets $10,000 Reward!
When it comes to social media, thousands of people use Instagram is used all over by hundreds who share pictures and videos with anyone from their immediate family to their fans from around the world. This year a 10-year-old from Helsinki, Jani, managed to find a potentially devastating bug that has since…
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Uber Accused of Skipping Out of Paying Bug Bounties
With all the apps and systems that are used, created and updated every day it is often impossible for you to be absolutely certain about their security. This resulted in the creation of external help through schemes like bug bounties unless your Uber who change the scope of what bug bounties they’ll…
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Bounty for Chromebook Hack Doubled to $100,000
Many companies seek to outsource the finding of vulnerabilities in their products to external hackers, offering monetary rewards in exchange for details on successful hacks that they can fix. In a show that should both display their faith in the security of the Chromebook as well as entice more hackers…
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