Microsoft took Facebook and some other technology giants invites hackers to exploit their skills for good . The technology giant asked the hackers to report their findings about cyber security issues and provide compensation for his efforts .
As reported by ZDNet ( 7/11 ) , both recently set up a program called HackerOne to utilize the expertise of the hackers hack for good . The hacker can report their findings here and their privacy will be guaranteed safety. In addition , they will also get a reward for the discovery .
Meanwhile , companies or products are the target of these hackers are not just directly ask the hackers collected data . Only companies registered in HackOne who can see it .
Later , members will be notified that there is a problem in the products or services over the phone by the Response Team of HackerOne . However , if the company does not reply within 30 days , then the findings would be published .
There are several categories of gifts that can be obtained from the hacker findings. Problems in the sandbox and general internet will be rewarded with such minimal $ 5 thousand , Open SSL USD 2.5 thousand , Python , Ruby , PHP , Rails , and Perl valued USD 1500 , Nginx and Apache httpd valued USD 500 , while Phabricator USD 300 .
Money itself is actually okay to be rejected by the hackers , but that does not mean it will burn up. Which rejected the money will be devoted to charitable activities with the specified target or hacker HackerOne winner itself.
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