What Is Bug Bounty?

 


A bug bounty program is a deal offered by many websites and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation for reporting bugs, especially those pertaining to exploits and vulnerabilities.A bug bounty program, also called a vulnerability rewards program (VRP), is a crowdsourcing initiative that rewards individuals for discovering and reporting software bugs.


 


So Bug Bounty is a program where Friendly Hackers called Bug hunters find and report vulnerabilities to companies in exchange for reward called bounty.

Many biggest companies like Google,Facebook,Microsoft,Apple,Twitter,Paypal and other offer bug bounty.

To start Register and create profile on Bugcrowd and Hackerone.To Learn bug hunting visit hackerone, blogs and forums.


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