Neowin News Feed for: Bounty

Microsoft will now pay you up to $40,000 for reporting vulnerabilities in .NET

Usama Jawad — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:12:01 +0000

Microsoft will now award anyone up to $40,000 if they privately disclose a high-severity security issue in .NET and ASP.NET Core, along with complete documentation. Read more...

Microsoft launches its new Defender Bounty Program with up to $20,000 in rewards

John Callaham — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced a new bounty program, this time to help find and squash bugs and issues in its Microsoft Defender security products. People who find those bugs can get up to $20,000. Read more...

Meta will now award bounties for scraping bugs and scraped datasets

Usama Jawad — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:38:01 +0000

Meta has announced that it will be offering bounties for scraping bugs and scraped datasets related to its products. The latter features a unique system that does not offer monetary bounties directly. Read more...

Valve patches Steam exploit that allowed inflation of wallet funds

Usama Jawad — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:46:01 +0000

Valve has awarded a bounty of $7,500 to a person who identified a bug through which they could artificially inflate their wallets funds on Steam by changing the POST request via certain email IDs. Read more...

Google now offering bigger bounties for finding exploits in Chrome's JavaScript engine

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 06:10:01 +0000

Google has updated the rules for its Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program, offering bigger bounties and bonuses for security researchers who discover security exploits in Chrome's JavaScript engine. Read more...

Facebook announces bounties to clamp down on app developers abusing user data

Paul Hill — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:52:01 +0000

Facebook has announced the new Data Abuse Bounty Program in an attempt to tackle third parties who misuse people's Facebook data. The firm has suggested that rule breakers will face legal action. Read more...

Google has paid $112,500 as bounty for an Android exploit chain

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:34:01 +0000

A Chinese security researcher submitted two bugs to Google back in August 2017 that, combined, could allow the remote injection of arbitrary code into Android devices. Both bugs are already patched. Read more...

Google creates ‘Google Play Security Reward Program'

Paul Hill — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:00:02 +0000

Google has launched a new bounty program that's aimed at reducing the amount of malware on the Google Play Store. It will emulate similar programs Google runs for products like Chrome. Read more...

Coder was 'tempted to clean up Bieber's channel' after discovering a security flaw in YouTube

Usama Jawad — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:10:01 +0000

A Russian coder recently found a vulnerability in YouTube which allowed him to delete any video on the service, he also said that he was "tempted to clean up Bieber's channel" following its discovery. Read more...

Microsoft awards another $100,000 bounty for finding a Windows 8.1 exploit

John Callaham — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:54:59 +0000

Microsoft's ongoing bounty program for finding Windows 8.1 exploits has resulted in another $100,000 reward that is being paid to a researcher who discovered Mitigation Bypass variants Read more...

Interview: We chat with the winner of Microsoft's first $100,000 Windows 8.1 bounty

John Callaham — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:05:07 +0000

Neowin chats with James Forshaw, the first person to be awarded $100,000 by Microsoft in their current bounty program designed to find Windows 8.1 mitigation bypass exploits. Read more...

Microsoft offers hints on how to submit IE11 preview bounty discoveries

John Callaham — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:16:45 +0000

Microsoft offers up some last minute hints on how security developers can submit the best discoveries for its Internet Explorer 11 preview bounty program, which ends a week from today. Read more...

Microsoft pays first IE11 preview bounty bug prize to Google employee

John Callaham — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 23:54:31 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has selected the first winner of its Internet Explorer 11 preview bounty bug prize, and it turns out it will be given to a current employee at Google. Read more...

VeriSign Offers Hackers $8,000 Bounty on Vista, IE 7 Flaws

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:14:31 +0000

Thanks to ThePitt for posting this in BPN. VeriSign's iDefense Labs is offering money for remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 as a part of its pay-for-flaw VCP (Vulnerability Contributor... Read more...

Nintendo DS Wifi Bounty Set

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:33:35 +0000

A site has been put up by a community of Nintendo DS modders has set up a cash bounty for the first person (and group?) to release an open-source tcp/ip implementation for Nintendo's latest handheld... Read more...

$100 Bounty on iPods

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:12:21 +0000

Dell wants your old iPod and is willing to pay to get it. On Wednesday, Dell unveiled an offer that grants music customers a $100 rebate on a 15GB Digital Jukebox when... Read more...

SCO issues bounty for MyDoom creator

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:14:13 +0000

The controversial SCO Group has offered $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or group responsible for creating the MyDoom virus. The company also said Tuesday that... Read more...

Microsoft to offer bounty on hackers

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:31:21 +0000

Microsoft will announce on Wednesday that it will offer two $250,000 bounties for information that leads to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus, CNET News.com has learned.... Read more...

Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter demo

Marcel Klum — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:31:23 +0000

Hundreds of years in the future, several dominant races (Human, Jaldari, and Velleakan) occupy a host of solar systems and discover new planets on a regular basis. Huge conglomerates vie for rich resources on every... Read more...