Microsoft, Google and Facebook offer reward for bugs in ... - Digital Diary

Microsoft, Facebook and Google are supporting a project called Internet Bug Bounty, which offers rewards for finding critical flaws in web platforms such as OpenSSL, PHP, Perl and Apache. One of the challenges even offers values ??for those who hack the Internet itself and affect multiple products and users.

“If the public become safer thanks to their contribution to the Internet, we would like to be the first to recognize their work and thank you or sending money to a charity of their choice,” the site promises.

The rewards vary greatly, depending on the platform hacked. Find a flaw in Apache goes up to 50 º dollars while a vulnerability in the Internet as a whole is worth up to $ 5,000.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft will be responsible for judging which of the faults mentioned by the candidates are worthy of reward. Only the last two finance the project, but there are people involved from the search giant.

Microsoft already offers traditionally rewards for those who find security vulnerabilities, but it is the first time that the company joins with competitors to make a program like that.

The idea came from the Head of Product Safety Facebook, Alex Rice, who got the idea while drinking with Katie Moussouris, who heads the rewards program from Microsoft, and Chris Evans, the team’s security Google Chrome.