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HackerOne awarded over $300 million bug hunters

Security Affairs

HackerOne announced that it has awarded over $300 million bug hunters as part of its bug bounty programs since the launch of its platform. Most of bug hunters (61%) are experimenting Generative AI (GenAI) and believe it is essential to develop a new generation of hacking tools that can help them find more vulnerabilities.

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What to do when a bug bounty request sounds more like extortion

SC Magazine

There are some who are more concerned about scoring a big payday than ensuring a bug is responsibly disclosed and fixed before malicious actors can take advantage. SC Media then followed up by reaching out to additional bug bounty experts to get their own take on how to respond to such a situation. Photo courtesy of HackerOne).

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How to Close the Cybersecurity Skills Gap in Your Business

CyberSecurity Insiders

There are about 715,000 cybersecurity job openings in the United States that companies need to fill but cannot. One main issue is the level of certification needed to secure these cybersecurity jobs — the best-paying positions often require certificates in addition to a prospect’s university degrees. How can they close the skills gap?

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What Do the Pentagon and Facebook Have in Common? Website Security.

SiteLock

Is website security a priority for you? Large companies are well aware of this, which is why many have “Bug Bounty Programs” to reward website users for finding and reporting bugs, like exploits and vulnerabilities that live on their websites. Naturally, security is a top priority for the United States Pentagon.

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The rise of millionaire zero-day exploit markets

Security Affairs

Zero-day exploits are essential weapons in the arsenal of nation-state actors and cybercrime groups. Another factor to consider is that the high prices in the underground market are necessary to avoid that the developers of the exploits will disclose the vulnerabilities to the vendors through their bug bounty programs.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/15/24 – Palo Alto, Microsoft, Ivanti Exploits

eSecurity Planet

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. CVE-2023-6318 permits privilege escalation to get root access.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

” Gupta said the report qualified as a “medium” severity security issue in Shifter’s brand new bug bounty program (the site makes no mention of a bug bounty), which he said offers up to $2,000 for reporting data exposure issues like the one they just fixed.