Tor Launches Põrnikas Bounty Plan — Choke Paid For Hacking!

With the growing number of cyber attacks together with breaches, a pregnant number of companies together with organisations convey started Bug Bounty programs for encouraging hackers, põrnikas hunters together with researchers to discovery together with responsibly study bugs inward their services together with larn rewarded.

Following major companies together with organisations, the non-profit grouping behind Tor Project – the largest online anonymity network that allows people to enshroud their existent identity online – has finally launched a "Bug Bounty Program."

The Tor Project announced on Th that it joined hands amongst HackerOne to start a populace põrnikas bounty programme to encourage hackers together with security researchers to discovery together with privately study vulnerabilities that could compromise the anonymity network.

HackerOne is a põrnikas bounty startup that operates põrnikas bounty programs for companies including Yahoo, Twitter, Slack, Dropbox, Uber, General Motors – together with fifty-fifty the USA Department of Defense for Hack the Pentagon initiative.

Bug bounty programs are cash rewards gave past times companies or organisations to white lid hackers together with researchers who hunt for serious security vulnerabilities inward their website or products together with thence responsibly discover them.

The Tor Project announced its intention to launch a populace põrnikas bounty program inward belatedly Dec 2015 during a verbalise past times the Tor Project at Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) held inward Hamburg, Germany. However, it launched the invite-only bounty programme in conclusion year.

The highest payout for the flaws has been kept $4,000 — põrnikas hunters tin give the sack earn betwixt $2,000 together with $4,000 for High severity vulnerabilities, betwixt $500 together with $2,000 for Medium severity vulnerabilities, together with a minimum of $100 for Low severity bugs.

Moreover, less severe issues volition travel rewarded amongst a t-shirt, stickers together with a cite inward Tor's hall of fame.

"Tor users around the globe, including human rights defenders, activists, lawyers, together with researchers, rely on the security together with security of our software to travel anonymous online," Tor browser developer Georg Koppen said inward a weblog post. "Help us protect them together with decease along them rubber from surveillance, tracking, together with attacks."

The Tor Project is a non-profit organisation behind the Tor anonymizing network that allows whatsoever online user to browse the Internet without the fright of beingness tracked.

The Project get-go announced its innovation to launch the põrnikas bounty programme weeks later it defendant the FBI of paying the researchers of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at to the lowest degree $1 Million to assist them Unmask Tor users together with reveal their IP addresses, though FBI denies the claims.

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