A six-week bug-hunting contest netted the US Air Force information on 54 security vulnerabilities in its Common Computing Environment (CCE), a branch-wide cloud platform that aims to serve up online applications, program management firm Bugcrowd said on August 6.
The bug bounty program, in which 50 vetted hackers participated, resulted in $123,000 in prizes, or an average of $2,460 per participant. The number and severity of the issues reported to the US Air Force show the strength of the crowdsourced model, says Casey Ellis, Bugcrowd’s chief technology officer and founder.
