A common feature seen with Bengaluru’s bug hunters is that their parents are unsure whether their child’s work is ethical at all.

Cyber enthusiasts from India routinely expose loopholes in corporate websites and software, earning small financial rewards.

Bug hunting is the most rewarding ethical hacking today, with tech companies ready to pay big bucks.

India tops the list for submissions of bug reports by country. Yet, Indian companies holding bug bounty programmes are few and far between.

The social networking giant paid a total of $611,741 to 149 researchers between January-June this year.

Bug bounties are monetary rewards offered by tech firms to geeks who spot bugs, errors and security flaws before malicious hackers spot the...

India, which has over 142 million Facebook users, also holds top rank among 127 countries in terms of researchers contributing to its bug b...

Anand Prakash says he has received $15,000 from Facebook for reporting a bug that could have put the social network's 1.6 billion users at ...

New marketplaces let cos tap the skills of ethical hackers

Awarded top dollar by the social networking giant for fishing out bugs in its system, 22-year-old web developer Laxman Muthiyah talks to ET...

"After reviewing the issue you have reported, we have decided to award you a bounty of $12,500," Facebook told him in an email the same day.

Market analysts suggest the move is part of the social networking giant's strategy to expand its share of the online advertising pie and to...

Arul Kumar, a 21-year-old engineering graduate, has netted a $12,500 bounty from Facebook after he found a critical bug.

Mark Zuckerberg's account was hacked by a security researcher Khalil Shreateh after the social network ignored his warnings that a glitch i...

Facebook started the Bug Bounty programme a little more than two years ago to reward security researchers who report issues.

Bug would have allowed hackers to turn on users’ webcams without their knowledge and post videos to their profiles.

Facebook has paid out more than $40,000 in only three weeks and one person has already received more than $7,000 for six different issues f...