Bug Bounty

Intel Bug Bounty Program for Public Researchers

Intel decided latly after the incident of the last year with meltdown, spectre and other security issues that the bug bounty program will expand and be opened to other international security researchers. The upcoming updates are announced in a web blog post of intel to the community.

The rules of the actual program has been updated and security researchers will now receive higher rewards (bug bounties) if they find or discover security holes and vulnerabilities in Intel hardware.

Independent Researcher scores in Wickr Inc Bug Bounty Program

The security researcher Hanno Horrmeyer uncovered a vulnerability in the wickr inc ios and android application in 2017 Q1-2. He began to research for other program participants and teams after his disclosure to the bug bounty program was not correctly acknowledged. After a short  conversation we decided to cover the hannos research as independent vulnerability laboratory researcher to assist him without any charges. If you believed until today that wickr really securly deletes your messeges, you will in a minute think different about that topic. The vulnerability details read as follows and was acknowledged finally with a bug bounty in 2017 Q4.