Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly ones’ The maintainer of popular open-source data ...

An upstart security research firm with a controversial business model is at the center of a debate over how software bugs should be disclosed. Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis (VDA) Labs, founded ...

Lucrative financial rewards and the expansion of Internet services are driving a ‘bug-hunting’ bonanza among Nepali youth who have time in their hands during the pandemic lockdowns. Once the exclusive ...

In this News Desk interview with Dark Reading senior editor Alex Culafi from Black Hat USA 2025, high school students Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng discuss their innovative framework for vulnerability ...

AI-powered bug hunting has changed the calculus of what makes for an effective bounty program by accelerating vulnerability discovery — and subjecting code maintainers to ballooning volumes of AI flaw ...