GitHub scales back bug bounties, reminds users security is their responsibility too

Faced with the growing volume of submission to its bug bounty program, GitHub is replacing cash bounties with swag rewards for reports with low security impact — and asking researchers to stop submitting reports that are low quality or about things that aren’t its fault. The cloud-based code repository platform has seen a sharp increase in submissions that don’t demonstrate real security impact over the past year due to newer tools such as generative AI. “Not every valid submission represents a