In 2024, Google paid $11.8 million in bug bounties to 660 researchers who took part in the tech giant's vulnerability rewards program. The program, focused on keeping Google products safe and ...

Software providers continue to rely on community support to help them identify code mistakes that can lead to malicious attacks. Bug bounty programs remain a crucial component of cybersecurity ...

Microsoft paid a record $17 million this year to 344 security researchers across 59 countries through its bug bounty program. Between July 2024 and June 2025, the researchers submitted a total of ...

Bug bounty programs can be a big boon to software security and provide expanded vulnerability visibility, but they're not for all organizations and can come with risks. Bug bounty programs, which ...

So-called AI slop, meaning LLM-generated low-quality images, videos, and text, has taken over the internet in the last couple of years, polluting websites, social media platforms, at least one ...