In order to increase the safety of their instruments, Dropbox launches paid Hunting weaknesses of the program.
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Dropbox is aware of the rise in the world of hackers and equipment to become one, thanks to the democratization of networks. It is for this reason that he decided to reward a white hat that would reveal their flaws before hackers from using them less scrupulous.
Dropbox opened bug hunting program
All Web giants turn on the goodwill of what is called in the middle of White Hat hackers. These are security experts, professionals and self-learners, who dedicate their time and knowledge to investigate security vulnerabilities in software, services or websites. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and many others, that disaster many times thanks to the tenacity and talent of these people out of the shadows to avoid.
Dropbox has decided to launch its own bug hunting program, and announced that each error found would yield at least $ 216, on its discoverer and originality of this new service, the company does not provide any limits! It is therefore possible that meet a great success in the center. The company announced that it has already paid, the amount was about $ 4,900. Deciding between two experts who appear at the same time to make the same mistake, Dropbox explains that the reward would be right to publish first.
What are the programs concerned?
Dropbox company introduced the services covered by the new program was, of course, Dropbox, an online storage solution, but Carousel Photo Manager. These two applications in the Internet version, iOS and Android, as well as synchronization and client SDK.
So far, the company announced that its e-mail box is part of the new hunting program security vulnerabilities. It is not excluded that in the future.
See This : Dropbox: An application for smartphones and Windows tablets
Dropbox is aware of the rise in the world of hackers and equipment to become one, thanks to the democratization of networks. It is for this reason that he decided to reward a white hat that would reveal their flaws before hackers from using them less scrupulous.
Dropbox opened bug hunting program
All Web giants turn on the goodwill of what is called in the middle of White Hat hackers. These are security experts, professionals and self-learners, who dedicate their time and knowledge to investigate security vulnerabilities in software, services or websites. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and many others, that disaster many times thanks to the tenacity and talent of these people out of the shadows to avoid.
Dropbox has decided to launch its own bug hunting program, and announced that each error found would yield at least $ 216, on its discoverer and originality of this new service, the company does not provide any limits! It is therefore possible that meet a great success in the center. The company announced that it has already paid, the amount was about $ 4,900. Deciding between two experts who appear at the same time to make the same mistake, Dropbox explains that the reward would be right to publish first.
What are the programs concerned?
Dropbox company introduced the services covered by the new program was, of course, Dropbox, an online storage solution, but Carousel Photo Manager. These two applications in the Internet version, iOS and Android, as well as synchronization and client SDK.
So far, the company announced that its e-mail box is part of the new hunting program security vulnerabilities. It is not excluded that in the future.