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<blockquote data-quote="Wesleigh" data-source="post: 243764" data-attributes="member: 10855"><p><strong><em><u>Microsoft and Facebook - The Big Bug Hunt.</u></em></strong></p><p>With the internet being an ever growing entity, its meteoric growth seems to have become almost uncontrollable, has it not? But with such a fast-growing "organism", a few bugs are going to be present, and now is your chance to find them, <em>(and earn a hefty wad of cash at the same time!)</em>. Three of the worlds largest companies are putting their differences and rivalries aside, to join forces, and work towards what they call "a safer internet". The collective board of Google, Microsoft and Facebook are going under the alias of <a href="http://hackerone.com/ibb" target="_blank">Internet Bug Bounty</a> (IBB).</p><p></p><p>To explain it in a more simple fashion, IBB are calling all hackers, who wish to earn a bit of well earned cash to trawl the internet in search of bugs and errors, that could possible pose a threat to either themselves or someone else. The project, which has been dubbed simply <a href="https://hackerone.com/ibb" target="_blank">Hackerone</a>, is offering "bounties" starting from as low as £186 <em>($300)</em>, for specific areas, such as <a href="https://hackerone.com/phabricator" target="_blank">Phabricator</a>, and goes up to a minimum price of £3,110 <em>($5,000)</em> for any bug found that could affect the internet as a whole, but this could driven up, if the risk you expose is so great that it could affect large amounts of people, or somehow expose the internet itself to a much larger, and more vicious attack.</p><p></p><p>Whilst almost anyone can start hacking these programs and start earning money, there are some rules that have been lay down, such as:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Hacker must not be in a country that the US has trade restrictions with, such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Although you may be any age to hack, if you are under 18, you'll have to collect you bounty of your parents, so make sure to ask them first!</li> </ul><p>Although it might be a "zero-day" vulnerability <em>(one that is only found out about when attacks start to happen)</em>, make sure you tell IBB, and don't go round messing with other people's computers.</p><p></p><p><u>REMEMBER:</u> You have two choices: You could tell the IBB, or you could use the exploit for harm. One will earn you a fair chunk of money, and the other has the possibility to get you arrested, and landed with a nice criminal record. Please, choose the right one!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wesleigh, post: 243764, member: 10855"] [B][I][U]Microsoft and Facebook - The Big Bug Hunt.[/U][/I][/B] With the internet being an ever growing entity, its meteoric growth seems to have become almost uncontrollable, has it not? But with such a fast-growing "organism", a few bugs are going to be present, and now is your chance to find them, [I](and earn a hefty wad of cash at the same time!)[/I]. Three of the worlds largest companies are putting their differences and rivalries aside, to join forces, and work towards what they call "a safer internet". The collective board of Google, Microsoft and Facebook are going under the alias of [URL='http://hackerone.com/ibb']Internet Bug Bounty[/URL] (IBB). To explain it in a more simple fashion, IBB are calling all hackers, who wish to earn a bit of well earned cash to trawl the internet in search of bugs and errors, that could possible pose a threat to either themselves or someone else. The project, which has been dubbed simply [URL='https://hackerone.com/ibb']Hackerone[/URL], is offering "bounties" starting from as low as £186 [I]($300)[/I], for specific areas, such as [URL='https://hackerone.com/phabricator']Phabricator[/URL], and goes up to a minimum price of £3,110 [I]($5,000)[/I] for any bug found that could affect the internet as a whole, but this could driven up, if the risk you expose is so great that it could affect large amounts of people, or somehow expose the internet itself to a much larger, and more vicious attack. Whilst almost anyone can start hacking these programs and start earning money, there are some rules that have been lay down, such as: [LIST] [*]The Hacker must not be in a country that the US has trade restrictions with, such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. [*]Although you may be any age to hack, if you are under 18, you'll have to collect you bounty of your parents, so make sure to ask them first! [/LIST] Although it might be a "zero-day" vulnerability [I](one that is only found out about when attacks start to happen)[/I], make sure you tell IBB, and don't go round messing with other people's computers. [U]REMEMBER:[/U] You have two choices: You could tell the IBB, or you could use the exploit for harm. One will earn you a fair chunk of money, and the other has the possibility to get you arrested, and landed with a nice criminal record. Please, choose the right one! [/QUOTE]
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