March 17, 2020

Slack fixes account-stealing bug

Slack has fixed a bug that allowed attackers to hijack user accounts by tampering with their HTTP sessions.

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March 05, 2020

Ethical hackers swarm Pentagon websites

Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense's websites - and DoD officials are quite happy about the whole thing.

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September 23, 2019

Google pulls more fake adblockers from Chrome Web Store

Google has again been reprimanded for not spotting fake extensions impersonating popular brands in its Chrome Web Store.

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July 15, 2019

Apple quietly removes Zoom’s hidden web server from Macs

In the latest twist in the saga of the web-conferencing app, Apple has issued a ‘silent’ update removing Zoom's hidden web server from Macs.

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February 14, 2019

Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year

317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree.

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May 04, 2017

Have you got what it takes to hack the US Air Force?

The DoD's biggest bug bounty program ever opens for registration on May 15 to vetted hackers from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the US

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March 17, 2017

News in brief: GCHQ hits back in ‘wiretap’ row; Uber still needs humans; Intel call to bug-hunters

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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February 06, 2017

News in brief: ministers ‘not securing Twitter accounts’; dark web bug bounty; move on fake news in France

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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October 17, 2016

$5 million dollars paid as Facebook’s bug bounty program turns 5

Since its birth, Facebook's pioneering bug bounty program has uncovered 900 bugs and paid out over $5,000,000.

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