GitLab has awarded a total of $565,650 in security bug bounties to 171 researchers who reported valid vulnerabilities in the past year — and has announced the winners of its latest hacking contest. GitLab, which started out as a web-based Git repository manager before moving into the DevOps lifecycle management space, launched its bug-bounty program one year ago this week, and according to Juan Broullon, senior application security engineer at the company, received a total of 1,378 reports from 513 white-hat hackers in that time.

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