AMD launches bug bounty program with some seriously big rewards
You can earn tens of thousands of dollars from AMD for squishing security bugs
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AMDhas announced a new public bounty hunting program offering some serious rewards for participants discovering security vulnerabilities.
Until now, the popular chipmaker only had a private bug bounty programs, inviting a handful of security researchers to participate. Now, with the public program, anyone can report their findings to the company and even potentially earn big payouts.
To launch the program, AMD partnered with crowdsourced security services provider, Intigriti. Security researchers looking to report bugs will now be able to go through the Intigriti platform, report their findings there, and earn between $500 and $30,000 per bug.
Securing the silicon
The discovery of Spectre, Meltdown, different side-channel, branch prediction, and other speculative execution vulnerabilities directly harmed the performance of AMD silicon, as well as that of other major chip manufacturers. Hence, finding critical vulnerabilities before they can cause any major harm is pivotal, and tapping into the larger cybersecurity community to do that makes sense.
After all, AMD has had a fair share of bugs recently,Tom’s Hardwarereports, including the AMD Ryzen 7000 processors melting in their sockets (2023), severe BIOS security vulnerabilities from the original Zen to the latest Zen 4 processors (2024), and the unintended overclocking limits set on the RX 7900 GRE GPUs (2024).
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Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he’s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He’s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.
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