Monday, September 8, 2014

Now! Twitter Hire Hacker for Security

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Technology - The Hacker is not be denied is one of the most feared type of work in the virtual world. Although not a few hackers are 'good', a lot of hackers out there that are often spread viruses or break into websites and Internet accounts for personal gain. However, the latest news says if Twitter starts paying the hackers. For what?

Not to worry, it turns out Twitter do to protect its users. The second largest social networking in the world to make a new program of cooperation with the hackers to find system errors or bugs that appeared on Twitter.

Twitter will provide a fee for Internet Security researchers and hackers if they managed to find bugs and report them in Twitter. Payments were given was not the least, minimal funds given to hackers who managed to find a bug is USD 140. Then the bugs will be fixed by Twitter team itself. Thus, the hackers only need to report it, before the bug exploited by hackers who are not responsible.

The result was quite encouraging, because during the three months since the program was 'quietly' launched, Twitter has received 46 reports of bugs and pays 44 people. Bugs that appear are varied, ranging from a bug in the Twitter desktop, mobile covers iOS and Android, as well as Tweetdeck.

Twitter itself is actually a new program was officially launched yesterday (03/09). following in the footsteps of Facebook, Microsoft, and Google has a program first hackers 'payment' is.

Source: Merdeka.

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