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HackerOne is one of the most important vulnerability reporting platforms, so it has access to large amounts of information, although sometimes that information can be exposed. According to ethical hacking specialists, the platform had to pay more than $20k USD after mistakenly handing over improper access to an external actor, as per a report published […]
LINE Corporation, Japan-based communication, today announced the launch of a public bug bounty program on the HackerOne site for pentest and HackerOne bug bounty. Started in 2011, LINE became one of the world’s largest social platforms with hundreds of millions of users worldwide. After the private bug bounty program was started on HackerOne in July […]
Zero-day vulnerability in the Steam online gaming platform client has been revealed. According to the ethical hacking researcher who discovered the flaw, this is the second zero-day vulnerability found on Steam in just a couple of weeks. The first vulnerability, detected by the same Russian researcher, was reported in a timely manner to Valve, a […]
Argentina’s Santiago Lopez is now a millionaire due to his prowess on identifying flaws in online services as well as software. The ethical hacker who uses the moniker @try_to_hack became part of HackerOne’s bug bounty program in 2015 and so far he has reported more than 1,670 unique bugs. Lopez identified bugs in the products […]
106 Security Flaws Identified in Operationally Significant DoD Websites under US Air Force’s Bug Bounty Challenge. A team of white hat hackers working with HackerOne, a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform hosted a bug bounty event in collaboration with the US Air Force to identify bugs and security vulnerabilities in Air Force systems. Related: 17-years-old […]
Users of popular cell phone carrier T-Mobile could have been in great trouble because a British hacker researcher Kane Gamble identified a security flaw on T-Mobile website that has been termed as ‘critical.’ The flaw already has been reported to the firm and patched by T-Mobile. The yet unrevealed flaw is believed to be so […]
HackerOne, a platform that is offering hosting for bug bounty programs, announced today that open-source projects can now sign up for a free bug bounty program if they meet a few simple conditions. The new offering, named HackerOne Community Edition, is identical with HackerOne Professional Edition, the commercial service the company is offering to some […]
The proliferation of independent and vendor-sponsored bug bounties has not only put some money in researchers’ pockets, but has also forced enterprises—and software makers—to put processes in place to handle outside bug reports. “Saying you want one is not enough,” said Katie Moussouris, chief policy officer at bug bounty platform provider HackerOne. “CSOs need to […]