GameDailydotRecap: Valve awards $20,000 to white hat hacker for helping to fix huge security flaw

Who knew that hunting for security vulnerabilities could be so profitable?

Amanda Farough,Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:05:00

GameDailydotRecap is a little news show about the biggest news beats in games.

Today, we're talking about Valve's big payout to a security researcher for privately alerting the company to a massive security issue; Nintendo's ROM banhammer netting them $12 million in damages; Phil Spencer's renewed concern about the Windows app store; Girls Level Up documentary; and a bit of corporate news about Capcom USA and Twitch.

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