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GitHub: Over $500,000 bounties awarded in 2020

GitHub announced that from February 2020 to February 2021 over $500,000 bounties were awarded for 203 vulnerabilities.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
June 28, 2021
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GitHub released the 2020 highlights for its GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program, which was launched in 2014. According to the announcement, between February 2020 to February 2021, GitHub awarded $524,250 in bounties for 203 vulnerabilities in its products and services. The company also stated that 2020 was its busiest year and they handled a higher volume of submission than any other year.

2020 highlights of Bug Bounty Program

GitHub shared the highlights for the last year in a blog post they published. GitHub also shared one of the most interesting submissions they have received during that period. Here are some of the highlights of GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program:

  • $524,250 in bounties awarded for 203 vulnerabilities in the company’s products and services. This brings the overall rewards from the program since moving to HackerOne in 2016 to $1,552,004.
  • 1,066 submissions across its public and private programs.
  • Its response times improved by 4 hours from 2019, to an average of 13 hours to the first response.
  • Submissions were validated and triaged internally to partner teams within 24 hours on average.
  • Bounties were paid out on average 24 days after the submission of an eligible report.
  • The program was ranked as one of the top programs on HackerOne.

The platform also created a new internal team dedicated to the execution and growth of the bug bounty program in June of 2021. The team aims to accelerate and refine the triage and response process as well as expand into new initiatives. GitHub is also expanding the Product Security Engineering team and the broader GitHub security organization.

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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