In the modern security playbook, bug bounty programs feel inevitable: put your software in front of motivated researchers, pay them fairly for responsibly disclosed bugs, and ship safer code. But the ...

Global bug bounty platforms have become a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, awarding over $300 million to ethical hackers for securing digital assets. However, despite this success, the system is ...

For the last decade, the bug bounty program has been a must-have badge of honor for CISOs. The pitch was seductive: Why rely on a small internal team when you can have thousands of researchers poking ...

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it is expanding its bug bounty program with a new policy that brings all of its online services, including those supported by third-party and open-source ...

Microsoft paid a record $17 million this year to 344 security researchers across 59 countries through its bug bounty program. Between July 2024 and June 2025, the researchers submitted a total of ...

So-called AI slop, meaning LLM-generated low-quality images, videos, and text, has taken over the internet in the last couple of years, polluting websites, social media platforms, at least one ...

Find a Flaw, Earn Millions: Apple Gives Bug Bounty Payouts a Significant Boost The max payout for the company's bug bounty program increases from $1 million to $2 million, though someone could ...

The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contributions.… Curler-in-chief ...

A researcher known as Brutecat says an AI-assisted pipeline helped map and test more than 1,500 Google APIs. Google has not confirmed the $500,000 payout total. A security researcher says an ...

Apple is updating its Security Bounty program this November to offer some of the highest rewards in the industry. It has doubled its top award from $1 million to $2 million for the discovery of ...