LAS VEGAS—Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek figuratively drove off into the sunset today at Black Hat, hanging up their car hacking exploits for good and leaving behind a pioneering legacy that elevated this type of research into the mainstream. “It’s time someone else pick it up,” Valasek said. “We did our part and it’s time...

Ridesharing company Uber recently patched a vulnerability in its site that could have allowed an attacker to log into some “.uber.com” sites without a password and further compromise its internal network. Uber awarded Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnönen $10,000 for discovering the flaw last month, equalling the highest bounty the company has paid out since it launched the...

At the height of the Apple-FBI battle, researchers at Johns Hopkins University tunneled their way through the encryption protocol protecting iMessage to get at content sent via the Apple application Last week, a decidedly less complicated approach surfaced. Rather than having to learn crypto, inject malware or establish a man-in-the-middle position on the network, a...

Uber’s bug bounty program emerged from private beta mode yesterday, which it used as a feedback forum for participants in order to develop the public program. “This was pretty unique in its approach,” said HackerOne CTO Alex Rice. Uber’s program is built on the HackerOne platform, and Uber announced that the program’s biggest payouts for...