A “bug bounty program” found more than 40 exploitable website vulnerabilities on publicly available Maryland websites, such as those ending with “.maryland.gov,” “.md.gov” and “.state.md.us,” ...

A small team was being bombarded with submissions, many of which were low-quality, or AI-generated.

The state of Maryland has unleashed a team of computer experts and enthusiasts on a number of the state’s websites. The mission: to see if they could find weak spots in the state’s domains that end in ...

In software development, bugs in the code are inevitable. That’s why companies push out software updates so often. But there is a specific kind of bug that is especially worrisome, something called a ...

The development team of the open-source network tool ' cURL ' has been running a 'bug bounty program' since 2019, which pays rewards to researchers who discover security vulnerabilities. However, in ...

Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after ...

One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification.

Despite this lack of guidance, Opus 4.6 managed to identify a 500 high-severity vulnerabilities. Anthropic staff are validating the findings before reporting the bugs to their developers to ensure the ...

If you are a skilled cybersecurity expert, able to discover security threats and software vulnerabilities, you may soon be eligible for a $100,000 payday. OpenAI announced that it has expanded its ...

Bug bounty programs can be a big boon to software security and provide expanded vulnerability visibility, but they're not for all organizations and can come with risks. Bug bounty programs, which ...