Lucrative financial rewards and the expansion of Internet services are driving a ‘bug-hunting’ bonanza among Nepali youth who have time in their hands during the pandemic lockdowns. Once the exclusive ...

Facebook updated the terms of its bug bounty program for third-party services integrating with the platform to increase the rewards received by researchers. A year ago, Facebook announced that it ...

In April 2007, when Apple's “I'm a Mac” ads were telling people that Macs can't get hacked, security researcher Dragos Ruiu decided to put the idea to the test – in front of a room full of security ...

The vast majority of white hat hackers who reported that they were looking for jobs in cybersecurity said that their bug hunting experience helped them land a job, according to Bugcrowd’s 2018 Inside ...

Many security researchers make a living with security companies, but not everyone likes the rigidity of a corporate environment. Some work on a freelance basis. Like vigilante outlaws, they dig up ...

Bug bounties can be highly lucrative for top hackers; for instance, those based in India earn 16 times the median salary of a software engineer. And on average, top-earning researchers make 2.7 times ...

RISC-V continues to make headlines worldwide, but verification continues to be challenging. The findings of the Wilson Research Report, 2022 (see figure 1) make the trends in verification clear. We ...

A survey of 1,700 bug bounty hunters registered on the HackerOne platform reveals that top white-hat hackers make on average 2.7 times more money than the average salary of a software engineer in the ...

In 1895, George V. Hudson, a British entomologist (insect biologist) living in New Zealand didn’t have enough time for bug hunting, so he proposed a shift of two hours forward in the clock during the ...

Current and future cybersecurity professionals are using bug bounty programs to gain skills they can use to become security analysts, CISOs, or, in some cases, full-time vulnerability hunters. As part ...