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 ...

Google has revamped its AI Vulnerability Reward Program, offering up to $30,000 for bug hunters. The updated program ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — When Uber’s former security head Joe Sullivan first raised the idea of treating a serious 2016 data breach as a “bug bounty,” software engineer Daniel Borges thought it was a neat ...

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 ...

A cybersecurity scientist has issued a bizarre warning that sex robots could one day rise up and kill their owners if hackers can get inside their heads. Last month, tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed ...

A hacker who last week tried to poison a Florida city’s water supply used a remote access software platform that had been dormant for months, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told CNN on Tuesday.