Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. Well, sorry, it's the law. We measure how many people read us, and ensure you see relevant ads, by storing cookies on your device. If you're cool with that, hit “Accept all Cookies”. For more info and to customize your settings, hit “Customize Settings”.

Review and manage your consent

Here's an overview of our use of cookies, similar technologies and how to manage them. You can also change your choices at any time, by hitting the “Your Consent Options” link on the site's footer.

Manage Cookie Preferences
  • These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. Without these cookies we cannot provide you with the service that you expect.

  • These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

  • These cookies collect information in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used. They allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance.

See also our Cookie policy and Privacy policy.

This article is more than 1 year old

Kaspersky upends sofa, finds US$50k for bug bounties

Careful with that axe hack, Eugene

Kaspersky Lab has bowed to the probably inevitable and kicked off a bug bounty programme.

The company – whose products have, like everyone in the anti-virus space, been targeted by everyone from Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy down to mum's-basement script kiddies – is hosting bounty at HackerOne.

The bounty starts with its Kaspersky Internet Security 2017 and Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 SP1MR3 running on Windows 8.1 and above.

The bounties on offer aren't going to pay off anyone's mortgage: there's US$1,000 for local privilege escalation; $2,000 for exposure of user data; and $2,000 for remote code execution. While Bollinger Bounty Hunters will complain it's not worth their time, as with other low-ball first-time bounties, Kaspersky looks to be testing the waters.

According to Kaspersky's Threatpost, the company's Ryan Naraine explained that the bounty process has gone through a private beta with HackerOne.

“The more bugs we get, the better we are and the better our software is,” he's quoted as saying.

Well: up to $50,000 worth, the funding available in this current round of bounties, and the company notes that only the desktop products listed above are covered. Its Website, online services and network services are currently out of scope.

The current programme will run until February 2017. ®

 

Similar topics

TIP US OFF

Send us news


Other stories you might like