Mega Vulnerability Reward Program Starts Payouts: 7 Bugs Fixed In First Week

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 10, 2013 @12:19PM from the paid-in-bitcoins-of-course dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you're a hacker or a security researcher, this is a reminder that you don't have to take on Google's or Mozilla's software to get paid for finding a bug. In its first week, the Mega vulnerability reward program has already confirmed and fixed seven bugs, showing that Dotcom really does put his money where his mouth is. Although Mega hasn't shared how much money it paid out in the first week, how many bug submissions were made, or even who found which bugs, the company did briefly detail the discovered security holes. It also confirmed that the program is here to stay and urged those participating to find more severe bugs."

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Good Work Kim by sidevans · 2013-02-10 12:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

Lets hope it helps keeps those annoying federal police out of your servers.

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Re:New way to get software made cheap by ACluk90 · 2013-02-10 12:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

At least the bugs are fixed.
And frankly, if this is the way yielding the best product for your money: Why not?