Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk

Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light...

Internet Bug Bounty Pays $5,000 for Severe Bugs

A bounty program begun by a bevy of industry heavyweights, including Microsoft and Facebook, will pay good money to white hats, researchers and even aspiring young hackers who find bugs in any of a dozen technologies central to the vitality and trustworthiness of the Internet. Dubbed the Internet...

Barracuda Networks Launches Bug Bounty Program for Security Products

Barracuda Networks announced on Tuesday that it will pay over $3,100 to anyone who can hack into its security products. This bug bounty program is the first of its kind from a pure-play security vendor. “This initiative reflects our commitment to our customers and the security community at large,...

Google Ups the Bug Bounty Ante to $3133.7

Just four days after Mozilla announced it was increasing the bounty paid for critical security bugs in its software to $3,000, Google has upped the ante, saying that it will now pay $3133.70 for the most severe bugs researchers find in Chromium. “The maximum reward for a single bug has been...

MS Secretly Fixed 2 Bugs in Recent Update

A recent security patch from Microsoft silently fixed two severe bugs that were never disclosed even though they posed a risk to many of its customers, a security researcher said. Read the full article. The Register...