Node.js Security Bug Bounty Program Paused Due to Loss of Funding

3 pointsposted 3 hours ago
by tjwds

2 Comments

GeoSys

2 hours ago

That's pretty bad ... So many Fortune 500 companies using Node couldn't fork some spare change to keep themselves (and us) safe ...

benoau

2 hours ago

It's not that they're out of funding per-se:

> The discovery landscape is changing. AI-assisted research is expanding vulnerability discovery across the ecosystem, increasing both coverage and speed. The balance between findings and remediation capacity in open source has substantively shifted. We have a responsibility to the community to ensure this program effectively accomplishes its ambitious dual purpose: discovery and remediation. Accordingly, we are pausing submissions while we consider the structure and incentives needed to further these goals.

https://hackerone.com/ibb?type=team