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PayPal opens up bug bounty program to minors

2013-07-25 19:33:05| InfoWorld: Top News

PayPal is opening up its bug bounty program to individuals aged 14 and older, a move intended to reward younger researchers who are technically ineligible to hold full-fledged PayPal accounts. PayPal's program, which is a year old this month, only applied to those 18 years and older. Under the old rule, participants in the program were required to hold valid accounts, which excluded minors, said Gus Anagnos, PayPal's director of information security.

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Bug bounty programs provide strong value for Google, Mozilla

2013-07-10 14:12:35| InfoWorld: Top News

Paying rewards to independent security researchers for finding software problems is a vastly better investment than hiring employees to do the same work, according to researchers from the University of California Berkeley. Their study looked at vulnerability reward programs (VRPs) run by Google and Mozilla for the Chrome and Firefox Web browsers.

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Microsoft's Brilliant Idea: A Bug Bounty Program!

2013-06-24 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

It may be largely a locked-down PRISM world we're living in today, but that doesn't mean those of us here in the Linux blogosphere can't still have a little fun once in a while -- especially if it's at Microsoft's expense. The latest opportunity? Well, get this: Microsoft had a really good idea recently. *Really* good! Redmond has decided to... wait for it... launch a bug bounty program!

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