YouPorn taps HackerOne to launch bug bounty program with rewards of up to $25,000

‘Adult entertainment’ site YouPorn is the latest technology brand to turn to the white-hat hacker community in search for help squishing bugs in its online properties. The Los Angeles-headquartered firm, which is owned by a company called MindGeek that operates a slew of sites across the broadder Pornhub Network, says that it’s looking to “boost […]

Bug bounty platform HackerOne raises $40 million to help companies identify vulnerabilities

HackerOne, a vulnerability identification platform that helps connect security-conscious businesses with bug hunters, has raised $ 40 million in a Series C round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Founded out of San Francisco in 2012, HackerOne helps companies identify weaknesses in their online systems through offering cash incentives to security researchers, the idea being that […]

After cracking the US military, HackerOne gets $40 million in funding

HackerOne was very busy last year finding vulnerabilities in some of the most sensitive software used by the United States military. The Department of Defense selected HackerOne to run the US federal government’s first bug bounty challenge, Hack the Pentagon. Over the course of a month, hackers working with the company found 138 vulnerabilities. The […]