Does Public Disclosure of Vulnerabilities Affect Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs?

Two questions to all organizations and hackers interested in bug bounty: As an organization, would you prefer to disclose your patched vulnerability reports publicly? As a hacker, do you prefer to find bugs in an organization that discloses vulnerability reports?

Public disclosure of vulnerabilities has always been a critical and controversial topic in cybersecurity. In this research, we analyze this topic from a bug bounty perspective and examine how the public disclosure of resolved vulnerability reports affects ethical hackers' success …

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