Tor opens the Bug Bounty program to find a bug to receive a bonus

As cyber attacks and data leaks are increasing, many businesses and organizations have started the Bug Bounty program to encourage hackers, bug researchers and researchers to find and report bugs. to receive the prize.

Following many other companies and organizations, the nonprofit group behind the Tor Project - the largest anonymous online network that allows users to hide their true identities - has finally released the Bug Bounty program. Their own program. The Tor Project announced on Thursday that it has joined hands with HackerOne to start a bug search program, encouraging hackers and cyber security researchers to find and report these weaknesses to them.

HackerOne is a startup specializing in running bug finder programs for companies, including Yahoo, Twitter, Slack, Dropbox, Uber, General Motors - and even the US Department of Defense for the Hack Fifth Floor initiative. Corner.

These bug-fixing programs offer cash prizes to white-hat hackers and researchers who find serious security weaknesses on their websites or products and then inform them.

The Tor Project announced its intention to launch Bug Boungty from the end of December 2015 during a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) held in Hamburg, Germany. However, last year they only opened the program for those invited.

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Join to find and report bugs to receive bonuses from the Tor Project

The highest bonus is currently held at $ 4000. Bug hunters can earn from $ 2000 to $ 4000 with serious security holes, from $ 500 to $ 2000 with average errors and a minimum of $ 100 for less dangerous errors. In addition, less serious errors are also received a T-shirt, sticker and named on the famous boulevard of Tor.

'Tor users around the world, including human rights activists, social activists, lawyers, and researchers, rely on the security of our software to use the Internet. anonymously ', Tor developer Georg Koppen said in a blog post,' Help us protect them and help them avoid being monitored, monitored and attacked '.

Tor Project is a not-for-profit organization behind Tor's anonymous browser, allowing anyone to surf the web without fear of being monitored. The project first announced plans to open a bug finder program for a few weeks after they accused the FBI of paying researchers at Carnegie Mellon University at least $ 1 million to help them 'mask' users of Tor and reveal their IP address. The FBI denies this allegation.