Beachside vacation to jobless in hours: Ex-Microsoft techie shares his painful new chapterWhile on a family vacation, a Microsoft tech specialist received an unexpected layoff notice, abruptly ending his career. This sudden chang...
04 Jun, 2025, 08.54 AM IST
Google expands bug bounty programme specific to genAI attacksLast year, the tech giant issued over $12 million in rewards to security researchers who tested their products for vulnerabilities.
27 Oct, 2023, 03.57 PM IST
Microsoft announces AI bug bounty programme, offers up to $15,000 rewardMicrosoft has launched an AI bounty programme, encouraging researchers to find vulnerabilities in its Bing chatbot and AI integrations. The...
14 Oct, 2023, 01.09 PM IST
Mass event will let hackers test limits of AI technologyThere's already a community of users trying their best to trick chatbots and highlight their flaws. Some are official "red teams" authorize...
10 May, 2023, 05.23 PM IST
Hackers aim to find flaws in AI - with White House helpOpenAI, and other major AI providers such as Google and Microsoft, are coordinating with the Biden administration to let thousands of hacke...
10 May, 2023, 03.11 PM IST
OpenAI to offer users up to $20,000 for reporting bugsOpenAI Bug Bounty program, which went live on Tuesday, will offer rewards to people based on the severity of the bugs they report, with rew...
12 Apr, 2023, 07.26 AM IST
Intel's proprietary source code leaked, company confirmsThe chip-maker has reportedly confirmed that its 'Alder Lake BIOS' source code has been leaked by a third-party on anonymous imageboard web...
10 Oct, 2022, 05.20 PM IST
‘Bug bounty’ helps techies make a killing amid Covid lockdown“It’s a win-win deal for companies and experts,” said Srivastava, who made $35,000 (about Rs 26.7 lakh) over the past three months. “If the...
22 Jun, 2020, 01.29 PM IST
Encourage organizations at any stage of growth to have bug bounty program: Microsoft’s Jarek StanleyDo you have researchers that report vulnerabilities to your security response team already? You may consider starting with an invitation-on...
03 May, 2019, 02.11 PM IST
Meet Bengaluru's bug bounty huntersA common feature seen with Bengaluru’s bug hunters is that their parents are unsure whether their child’s work is ethical at all.
26 Jan, 2019, 01.49 PM IST
Ethical hackers in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru are making a killing bounty-hunting bugs for tech firmsBug hunting is the most rewarding ethical hacking today, with tech companies ready to pay big bucks.
12 Aug, 2018, 07.04 PM IST
Even password protected Wi-Fi is unsafe, vulnerable to hacks: ResearchersResearchers claim to have discovered a weakness in a Wi-Fi security protocol called WPA2 that leaves password-protected Wi-Fi connections o...
17 Oct, 2017, 10.18 AM IST
Inside the big bad business of smashing bugsNew marketplaces let cos tap the skills of ethical hackers
19 Mar, 2015, 12.34 PM IST
Laxman Muthiyah: Hunts small bugs on Facebook, makes big moneyAwarded top dollar by the social networking giant for fishing out bugs in its system, 22-year-old web developer Laxman Muthiyah talks to ET...
19 Mar, 2015, 11.37 AM IST
Monendra Sahu, Raipur's ethical hacker in Google's 'security hall of fame'He hacked some of the most secured internet networks existing on world wide web and got rewarded by his targets.
14 Oct, 2013, 03.34 AM IST
Google raises 5-fold reward for reporting bugs to $5,000Google has decided to raise the reward amount it pays to those reporting bugs by five-fold, or up to USD 5,000.
20 Aug, 2013, 05.52 PM IST
Facebook manages to block peeping tomsBug would have allowed hackers to turn on users’ webcams without their knowledge and post videos to their profiles.
31 Dec, 2012, 06.05 AM IST