If you’re ready to deal with the volume of reports, a bug bounty program can help you can find the holes in your system — before attackers do. Topics Spotlight: Optimizing the Cloud; ...

Detecting bugs in computer programs is an expensive task, and there is no way of measuring their efficacy without knowing exactly how many go unnoticed. To tackle this problem, researchers have ...

Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified Shellshock computer bug, also widely known as the "Bash bug," using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them ...

Integer overflows are one of the most common bugs in computer programs -- not only causing programs to crash but, even worse, potentially offering points of attack for malicious hackers. Computer ...

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. Sergiu Gatlan March 10 ...

Ever wondered where the term ‘bug’ came from? Well, on September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found a moth between the relays on the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on. In ...

Sixty years later, computer bugs are still with us, and show no sign of going extinct. As the line between software and hardware blurs, coding errors are increasingly playing tricks on our daily ...

AI research company OpenAI announced today the launch of a new bug bounty program to allow registered security researchers to discover vulnerabilities in its product line and get paid for ...

Writing computer programs without bothering to iron out the bugs is akin to a surgeon not sewing up a patient after an operation. Burnley, Lancashire, UK Issue no. 2564 published 12 August 2006 ...

Bug bounty programs “are a great tool — if done right — for companies to control the disclosure process and encourage researchers to come to them with their findings,” said Carsten Eiram ...