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Optimizing Bug Bounty Programs for Enhanced Security and Efficiency

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In this article, Threatpost catches up with David Baker, the chief security officer at Bugcrowd, about the future of bug bounty programs. While bug-bounty programs may seem like a cure-all solution for companies looking discover vulnerabilities in their systems more efficiently, the fact remains that a program could overwhelm a firm’s internal security team and cause other major headaches if implemented the wrong way.

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Jul 12, 2019

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Open Source Initiative: Google Robots.txt Standardization

Google is releasing robots.txt to the open-source community in the hopes that the system will, one day, becoming a stable internet standard.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2019

Celebrating FreeDOS At 25 Years: A Journey Through Open Source

June 29 marks the 25th anniversary of FreeDOS. That's a major milestone for any open source software project, and I'm proud of the work that we've done on it over the past quarter century. I'm also proud of how we built FreeDOS because it is a great example of how the open source software model works.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 28, 2019

Examining the Expansion of Cloud Security and Upcoming Obstacles Ahead

Two reports on cloud security were recently released: The 2019 Cloud Security Report and the Global Cloud Security Software Market report. The latter is a five-year forecast that covers 2019 through 2024. These reports showed where growth lies within the cloud security market and what challenges are presented to businesses who use or are looking to use cloud services.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2019

Investigating the Influence of Supercomputers on AI at ISC 2023

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) kicked off in Frankfurt yesterday with the release of the latest list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. US machines still top the ranking, but China has the most computers on the list (219 versus 116 for the US).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2019

Harnessing Open Source For Business Growth And Innovation

As companies chase the transformational technologies that will deliver exponential returns, they should turn their attention from the “what” to the “how.” One type of software underpins many of the most exciting, cutting-edge innovations today, including AI, cloud, blockchain, and quantum computing: open source.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2019

Exploring Have I Been Pwned's Impact on Data Breach Awareness

Have I Been Pwned has become a popular tool to find out whether or not you have been involved in a data breach, and after starting life as a one-man-band project, may soon be on the acquisition books.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 11, 2019

Chinese Military Custom OS Development Due To US Hacking Threats

Amidst an escalating trade war and political tensions with the US, Beijing officials have decided to develop a custom operating system that will replace the Windows OS on computers used by the Chinese military.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 28, 2019

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Open Source Initiatives Address Edge Computing Challenges and Opportunities

There are almost as many open source groups and projects working on edge computing as there are definitions of edge — one such project, in fact, focuses exclusively on defining edge terms. This is partially due to the hype, and consolidation will probably happen as the hype turns into real-life deployments and concrete use cases.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 27, 2019

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Tor Browser 8.5 Launches for Android: Advanced Privacy Features

After nine months of alpha testing, a stable release of the Tor browser for Android can now be downloaded from Google’s Play store or direct from the Project’s website.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2019

Exploring AI Collaboration and Its Positive Role in Society

AI is becoming increasingly widespread, affecting all facets of society — even Sonic drive-ins are planning to implement artificial intelligence to provide better customer service.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2019

Mozilla's Research Grant For Improved Tor Integration In Firefox

Mozilla is looking for a more efficient way of integrating Tor into Firefox, and the organization is willing to throw money at the problem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 09, 2019

IBM's System Call Isolation Enhances Linux Kernel Security

Developers at IBM are working on a new concept for the Linux kernel of "system call isolation" in order to isolate parts of the kernel when impacted by vulnerabilities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 26, 2019

Linux 5.1-rc6 Release Announcement Amid Easter Holidays

Linux 5.1-rc6 is larger than the previous release candidate, but he isn't too worried right now about the condition of the upcoming Linux 5.1 kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2019

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University Of Louisville: IBM Partners To Launch Blockchain Academy

One of top 200 universities in the US, along with a helping hand from IBM, is getting its students into blockchain with dedicated training.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 18, 2019

Google Introduces Anti-Phishing Security Tokens for Android Users

Google just announced a new security feature that allows users of Android 7 and later to use their smartphones to authenticate themselves to their Google accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2019

European Commission Launches AI Ethics Guidelines Pilot for Global Unity

The European Commission has announced the launch of a pilot project intended to test draft ethical rules for developing and applying artificial intelligence technologies to ensure they can be implemented in practice.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 08, 2019

The Central Security Project: Streamlining Java Vulnerability Reporting

When a security researcher finds a security bug, what do they do? Unfortunately, the answer sometimes is they search for the appropriate people to notify and, when they can’t be found, end up posting the vulnerability to public email lists, the GitHub project, or even Twitter.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2019

Critical Vulnerability in Facebook Fizz TLS: DoS Exploit Discovered

Researchers have found a vulnerability in the open-source Facebook Fizz project which is relatively easy to trigger for the purposes of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 23, 2019

ICANN Reports Ongoing Significant Threats to DNS Infrastructure

The internet's address book keeper has warned of an "ongoing and significant risk" to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 25, 2019

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