Dropbox Will Pay Hackers To Bug Reports

The popular online storage service Dropbox goes hackers and researchers now have to pay for reporting bugs. In a blog posting suggests Devdatta Akhawe Dropbox storage service that sorts itself enable experts to find security problems, but that it can use all the help security researchers. The payment of bug rewards is an important incentive, set Akhawe.

Dropbox has also received all kinds of bug reports in the past and will reward all these researchers retrospectively. This is an amount totaling $ 10,475. The reward program Dropbox is organized through HackerOne , an initiative that offers companies the opportunity to start so-called "bug bounty" programs.

Approved bug reports can count on a minimum fee of $ 216, the maximum amount has not been established. The highest reward that Dropbox has so far paid amounts to nearly $ 5,000. According Akhawe late offering a reward program to see how dedicated Dropbox to privacy and security. Since the launch of the program, there are already 27 reported bugs and thanks 26 hackers.

Google Rewards Users For Security Check With 2GB Storage

As part of Safer Internet Day gives Google users Google Drive 2 gigabytes of additional storage when a security check to perform. According to the Internet giant, users can check their account this way or it is secured. It prompts you to verify the data with which an account can be restored.

In case Google suspicious activity in an account detects users are accessed through this data. The second step in the security check consists of verifying the credentials. This allows users to see if there are others with stolen credentials to login to their account. Finally, it should be confirmed that apps and devices allowed to access account information. Once the audit is performed, there will be at the end of this month 2GB of storage space to be added. The action of Google is 17th February.