Yahoo unleashes ethical hackers on its web services under Intigriti’s watch. The Internet company hopes to discover vulnerabilities before hackers with less good intentions do.

Yahoo is launching a new bug bounty program that covers the company’s various web services, from Yahoo Mail to its search engine. With a bug bounty program, a company enlists the help of ethical hackers to identify vulnerabilities in its systems. The hackers receive compensation if they honestly report it: at Yahoo, this can range from one hundred to fifteen thousand dollars if it is a serious security flaw.

To ensure that only hackers with good intentions can participate, Yahoo hired the Belgian Intigriti. Since 2016, Intigriti has become a reference in ethical hacking and thousands of hackers worldwide are connected to the bug bounty platform. The strict conditions for participation in the program are described in detail on this page.

Red vs Blue

More and more companies are recognizing the benefits of bug bounty programs. Ethical hackers, in cybersecurity parlance as Save team Think and act like cybercriminals and find referenced vulnerabilities blue team may have been overlooked or not yet closed. This brings critical vulnerabilities to light before malicious hackers discover them.

From a political perspective, the stigma surrounding ethical hacking has been completely lifted. At the end of 2022, the Belgian government decided to no longer consider this an illegal activity, an important recognition for Intigriti. The European Union turned to Intigriti in early 2022 to investigate vulnerabilities in open source software.