LinkedIn Bug Bounty Program Becomes Available To The Public – Latest Hacking News

The Microsoft-owned social networking giant LinkedIn has stepped up to welcome further security improvements. Specifically, LinkedIn has now made its private bug bounty program on HackerOne available for the public to participate. LinkedIn Bug Bounty Program As announced via a recent post, the popular social media platform LinkedIn has now formally announced its bug bounty program. LinkedIn is one of the largest social platforms known for professional networking. It currently boasts over 830 million users. This massive user base naturally attracted cybersecurity threats. Hence, the platform kept appearing for breaches, bugs, and data scraping in the news. Nonetheless, the service continued working to strengthen its security, and now, they have moved on to welcoming bug reports from everyone. As elaborated, the platform already had a bug bounty program running since 2014 on HackerOne. However, it was a private, invite-only program. But now, the platform has opened it up for everyone to participate, as long as the bugs fall into the approved categories. Since 2014, our private bug bounty program with HackerOne, which connects businesses with cybersecurity researchers, has been a key part of our product security efforts having awarded more than $250,000 across nearly 500 submissions covering the LinkedIn member…
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