Google has recently announced the popular policy of paying the
geeks a prize up to $5,000 (approx. Rs. 3,21,675) for every bug report.
In fact, this is 5 times more to that of what Facebook pays for the same
kind of bug report.
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This could possibly be the best chance for majority software geeks to
earn a quick bucks. Moreover, reportedly it is said that India receives
quite a lot of these kind of bounty price on bug reports. Google also
recently raised the reward for XSS bugs for Gmail as well.
Moreover, Google was reported to have already paid over $2 million for
bug bounty programme to the ones who have reported the vulnerabilities
in its Chrome browser and operating system.
While on the other hand, $1 million was sent by Facebook in a similar
programme. Moreover, Microsoft also started the similar programme in
June, offering up to $100,000 for reporting bug in their Windows
operating system.
Recently Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account was hacked by a systems
information and IT security guy, Khalil Shreateh. The reason behind the
hacking of the chief executive's social networking account was just to
prove the presence of bug on Facebook that was allowing the hacker to
penetrate into other random accounts.
However, Facebook, claims to have a policy to pay out the guys whou will
report a bug on their site. However, on this case, some conditions
deprived Khalil Shreateh of his bounty prize worth $500 (approx. Rs.
32,167.50).
For those who doesn't know, a bug causes an error or defect like a
glitch in a software or hardware that affects a programme in a various
way negatively. Bugs can also make system vulnerable to crashing and
unauthorised access to the systems.
