The Department of Homeland Security has issued a solicitation for companies to provide crowdsourced vulnerability assessment services—including for competitions and live events—for phase two of the ...

China-linked hackers are exploiting severe zero-day vulnerabilities in VMware software, allowing them to gain root access to ...

Bug bounty firm HackerOne Inc. today announced the launch of its first partner program to meet a growing demand for cybersecurity solutions that leverage their global ethical hacker community. Called ...

Facebook is launching a loyalty program for white hat hackers alongside a description language designed to standardize the process of reporting bugs. The Facebook Bug Description Language (FBDL) is ...

Google says hackers associated with the Clop ransomware gang are emailing executives at multiple organizations claiming to ...

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced 450 researchers working in its first-ever “Hack the DHS” bug bounty program identified at least 122 vulnerabilities, 27 of which were ...

The folks behind the upcoming Gdium netbook have launched a new program they’re calling “One Laptop Per Hacker.” The goal is to build a more robust developer community around the company’s unusual ...

DHS S&T OpEx workers monitor computer screens in February 2016. (DHS photo) Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the results of its first bug bounty program. Through the “Hack ...

Uber’s information security chief, John Flynn, defended the company’s practice of paying hackers to find security flaws as he faced lawmakers over a data breach in 2016 where hackers stole the ...