The new law, Article 8-A, carves out exceptions for actions that might otherwise be deemed illegal, such as unauthorized system access, provided the researcher acts solely in the public interest of cybersecurity.
Apple has increased financial rewards for zero-click remote code execution vulnerabilities by twofold to $2 million as part of an updated bug bounty program, Security Affairs reports.
SecurityWeek reports that Google has introduced a new AI Vulnerability Reward Program, which expands on its 2023 Abuse VRP, aimed at identifying security flaws and abuse issues across its artificial intelligence products.
Wiz's research arm, in partnership with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft, has launched Zeroday Cloud, a bug-hunting contest that will award a total of $4.5 million in bounties at the Black Hat Europe conference, according to BleepingComputer.
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