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In August 2013, a Palestinian computer science student reported a vulnerability that allowed anyone to post a video on an arbitrary Facebook account. According to the email communication between the student and Facebook, he attempted to report the vulnerability using Facebook's bug bounty program but the student was misunderstood by Facebook's engineers.
Example bug history (GNU Classpath project data). A new bug is initially unconfirmed. Once reproducibility is confirmed, it is changed to confirmed. Once the issue is resolved, it is changed to fixed. Bugs are managed via activities like documenting, categorizing, assigning, reproducing, correcting and releasing the corrected code.
security.txt is an accepted standard for website security information that allows security researchers to report security vulnerabilities easily. [1] The standard prescribes a text file named security.txt in the well known location, similar in syntax to robots.txt but intended to be machine- and human-readable, for those wishing to contact a website's owner about security issues.
RISC OS Open bounty scheme to encourage development of RISC OS [11] AmiZilla was an over $11,000 bounty to port the Firefox web-browser to AmigaOS, MorphOS & AROS. While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.
For example, the 2nd edition of The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, offered $2.00. The reward for coding errors found in Knuth's TeX and Metafont programs (as distinguished from errors in Knuth's books) followed an audacious scheme inspired by the wheat and chessboard problem , [ 10 ] starting at $2.56, and doubling every year until it ...
Previously a member of @stake, she created the bug bounty program at Microsoft [1] and was directly involved in creating the U.S. Department of Defense's first bug bounty program for hackers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She previously served as Chief Policy Officer at HackerOne , a vulnerability disclosure company based in San Francisco, California, [ 4 ] and ...
In computer security, coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD, sometimes known as responsible disclosure) [1] is a vulnerability disclosure model in which a vulnerability or an issue is disclosed to the public only after the responsible parties have been allowed sufficient time to patch or remedy the vulnerability or issue. [2]
GNATS is a set of tools for tracking bugs reported by users to a central site. It allows problem report management and communication with users via various means. GNATS stores all the information about problem reports in its databases and provides tools for querying, editing, and maintenance of the databases.