Bug Bounty Hackers Make More Money Than Average Salaries, Report Finds | Linux Today

Bug Bounty Hackers Make More Money Than Average Salaries, Report Finds

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jan 22, 2018

The promise of a bug bounty program is that an ethical hacker will be rewarded with a financial award (the ‘bounty’) for responsibly disclosing a security vulnerability. What types of people actually participate in bug bounty programs and why do they do it? Those are just a few of the questions that managed bug bounty platform provider HackerOne answers in its 2018 Hacker Report.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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