Apple has long been the holdout among technology companies offering hackers rewards for finding and reporting software vulnerabilities, but the company recently decided to change course. Apple on ...

Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability ...

OpenAI now offers hackers $100,000 in bug bounty update. Bug bounty programs are big news for big money reasons. Exceptional hackers can earn exceptional bounties, with Google having paid out $11.8 ...

HackerOne, one of the largest bug bounty platforms in the world, reported there were 85,000 valid bounty submissions in 2025, up 7% from the previous year. Crypto protocols have warned that an ...

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Google paid almost $12 million in bug bounty rewards to 660 security researchers who reported security bugs through the company's Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2024. Among last year's ...

The market for independent vulnerability research took off in 2021, with the volume of bug bounties rising by more than a third and total bounties paid surging to nearly $37 million, according to a ...

Since its inception in 2020, Zoom’s private bug bounty program has awarded $2.4 million in payments and swag to security researchers, recruiting over 800 ethical hackers via the HackerOne platform. In ...

OpenAI has launched a new bug bounty program to engage researchers in addressing AI abuse and safety risks across its products. The new Safety Bug Bounty program was announced on March 26 and is ...

HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability researchers since the platform's inception. Thirty hackers have ...