Microsoft has given $63 million in rewards to bug bounty program participants since its first program for reports on Windows 8.1 exploitation methods and Internet Explorer 11 preview flaws in 2013, with $60 million of the bounty paid during the last five years alone, reports SecurityWeek.
This week Dr. Doug talks: Microsoft, SeroxenRAT, Smart Links, Vogons, ToddyCAT, ShellBot, Hidden servers, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News!
In the Security News: No Flipper Zero for you!, your glibc is hanging out and other Looney Tunables, and it vulnerable, for no reasons, other than the obvious ones, a Russian firm will pay $20m for Android or iPhone 0days, you do what you do and other Exim vulnerability stories, yet another way to become root on Linux, if you ever wanted to read th...
Attackers impersonate Dependabot commits, an alg of "none" plagues a JWT, CISA calls for hardware bills of materials, OpenSSF lists its critical projects, Exim (finally! maybe?) has some patches, bug bounties and open source projects, and more!
In the Fall, 2016, Uber experienced a data breach, and the CISO faced the possibility of prison time for felony obstruction and misprision for failure to report the 2016 breach. He was sentenced in May, 2023 to 3 years’ probation. Join the former CISO of Uber as we discuss the events which led to the prosecution case, the results of the trial and a...
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