Bug Bounty Awards Climb as Software Security Improves

ronjor · Jan 8, 2019

Robert Lemos 1/7/2019

Top reward for iOS remote exploit hits $2 million, as companies who sell exploits to national governments have to offer more money to attract researchers to tackle increasingly secure software.
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Minimalist · Feb 15, 2019

White-Hat Bug Bounty Programs Draw Inspiration from the Old West

Back in the Old West, sheriffs tacked up parchment "Wanted" posters offering cash bounties to help them catch lawless gunslingers like Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy. Today, corporations and governments are paying high-dollar bounties to combat a new generation of Billy the Bots and Breach Cassidys on a far more expansive frontier — cyberspace.

These anonymous, modern-day outlaws hide behind the nicknames of the viruses they unleash on a wide range of targets, destructive malware with monikers like WannaCry and NotPetya. With so much at stake — the fast-growing cybercrime epidemic is projected to cost the world $6 trillion a year by 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures; these so-called "bug bounty" programs are now an essential strategy in keeping the digital desperados at bay.
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