Welcome to this week’s Quotes of the Week: 2015 is the year of the bug bounty programme, software that writes itself and more.
SourceClear Raises $10 Million
“Instead of figuring out how to hack a thousand websites, they can figure out one vulnerable software component and know where it is stored”
Mark Curphey, head of SourceClear explains why the company he has developed to help develop software is so important especially to prevent hacker attacks and why it has attracted major investment this week. Read More here
2015 is the Year of The Bug Bounty Programme
“If 2014 was the year that hackings of everything from federal government computer networks to the computers of Sony Pictures became routine news, 2015 may be the year that companies tried to do something about it — although not without some rough nudgin”
Nicole Perlroth, reports in the New York Times about how bug bounty programmes have become extremely popular this year thanks to the lead taken by companies like Facebook and Microsoft. Read More here
