Bug bounties are programs organizations offer to incentivize security researchers or ethical or white hat hackers to find and report vulnerabilities in their software, websites or systems. Bug ...

Microsoft has revealed it awarded 341 researchers a total of $13.6 million during the past year for reporting security vulnerabilities in its bug bounty programs. The awards were issued between July 1 ...

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 ...

Meta launches WhatsApp Research Proxy to aid bug bounty investigations into WhatsApp protocols Specialized research pilot expands to include abuse issues with engineering support and tooling In 2025, ...

Mastercard has joined PayPal, Square, Stripe and a handful of banks offering “bug bounties” to volunteers willing to comb some of its websites in search of glitches. Purchase, N.Y.-based Mastercard ...

“You actually have to be deliberate about building maturity and sustaining that maturity over time,” said Luta Security's Katie Moussouris. Bug bounties fail to deliver long-lasting security benefits ...

In the rush to launch, cybersecurity doesn’t always get the attention it deserves, and yet it’s one of the first things that startups learn can — and will — go wrong. Hacker and security researchers ...

Microsoft has paid out a total of $13.7m (£11.3m, €13.3m) in bug bounties over the past 12 months, with 330 researchers from 46 countries acknowledged for their assistance in discovering and reporting ...