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What Are Bug Bounties and How Do They Work?

December 4th, 2025

Bug bounties give security researchers a structured way to report vulnerabilities. This guide explains how bug bounty programs work and why organizations use them.

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Adobe and HackerOne Celebrate Five Years of Continued Collaboration

August 12th, 2020

Adobe, best known for its multimedia and creativity software product line, serves millions of customers...

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Securing video streaming in sub-Saharan Africa

August 4th, 2020

Guest post by Jan Spitalnik, CTO of subscription video on demand service, Showmax Maintaining a...

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Costa Coffee prepares for global expansion with bug bounty program

July 27th, 2020

When thinking about bug bounty customers, most people's minds will most likely go to huge...

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Visma’s Ioana Piroska on Securing the Development Lifecycle Through Bug Bounties

July 17th, 2020

Visma is a leading business solution provider in Northern Europe, focusing on business optimization and...

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Mail.ru Group pays out over $1 million in bounties

June 30th, 2020

“It’s not worth building a fence if it can be bypassed just two steps to...

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Announcing the PlayStation Bug Bounty Program

June 24th, 2020

This guest post is authored by Geoff Norton, Senior Director Software Engineering at PlayStation, and...

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Scaling & Prioritizing Product Security with Zendesk

June 18th, 2020

Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN) is one of the fastest-growing customer support platforms in the world...

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PayPal on Creating Strong Relationships with Security Researchers

May 12th, 2020

This blog post was written and contributed by Information Security Engineer, Ray Duran, on behalf...

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Shopify Celebrates 5 Years on HackerOne

May 5th, 2020

Five years ago, Shopify’s small but mighty security team began their hacker-powered security journey with...