luv...
The Fink Ployd reference was excellent!
Good to hear that those who are trying to help us plebs stay safe are aware that the plebs can often expose vulns.
Kaspersky upends sofa, finds US$50k for bug bounties
Kaspersky Lab has bowed to the probably inevitable and kicked off a bug bounty programme. The company – whose products have, like everyone in the anti-virus space, been targeted by everyone from Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy down to mum's-basement script kiddies – is hosting bounty at HackerOne. The bounty starts with its …
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Thursday 4th August 2016 07:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Finding exploits takes dedication, real creative leaps...
But this is just tacaño & barato!!! Kiss my ass Kaspersky! Until there's a minimum of 10k being offered, and preferably 50-100k+ for serious dedicated time-consuming bug-hunts, who wants to be the lapdog of fat corporates??? Sure Execs, keep seeing us techs as mere plumbers, and chase down our wages accordingly.... And we'll keep watching you being forced to resign in disgrace after breach after breach!
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Thursday 4th August 2016 08:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Why bug bounties though?
Wouldnt it be more effective to just have an inside team of talent for this?
No matter what the bounty is you still cant make a living out of it.
This probably means the best bug hunters / hackers still probably take money from the black market.
Bug bounties are the crumbs off a rich mans table.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
