[su_heading size=”18″ margin=”30″]There are 2 types of hackers! The first is the one you often see in Hollywood movies, anti-social «hacker girls» who try to conquer cyberspace and turn everything upside down! The second kind are those who simply enjoy searching for new tricks on software source code and hardware gigs.[/su_heading]
Yes, that's right! The term hacker most often refers to those who belong to the second type and have no bad intentions! However, the term is often used for cyber criminals. There are both good and bad hackers! Well-intentioned hackers are often called “white hats” and the bad ones are “black hats.”
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White hats are often referred to as ethical hackers. After we discussed the most well-known black hats in the first and second parts, today we will discuss the most well-known and also the highest-paid ethical hackers. These hackers are security specialists who are paid to hack companies and discover security gaps in their systems before a malicious hacker finds and exploits them. Often these discoveries are rewarded through bug bounty programs.
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Neel Metha (Google)
The famous HeartBleed was a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptography library. It was discovered accidentally by Neel Metha, a member of Google's security team, in 2014. He was rewarded with $15,000.
Sanmay Ved (Google)
Google paid $12,000 to a former Googler who somehow managed to acquire its domain, Google.com, for 1 minute in 2015. The amount was initially $6,000.13 (Google) but after Ved stated that he would donate it to a charitable foundation, Google decided to double the amount.
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Pinkie Pie (Google)
Google paid $150,000 to a hacker nicknamed Pinkie Pie who had repeatedly identified bugs in Chrome including a Linux kernel bug and a config file error.
Jordan Wiens (United)
The vulnerability researcher from Florida, Jordan Wiens received one million free airline miles as compensation because he discovered an RCE bug in the network of the airline United.
Reginaldo Silva (Facebook)
The Brazilian computer engineer Reginaldo Silva found one of the worst vulnerabilities of 2013 in Facebook's software that was related to the authentication system OpenID code. He received as compensation 33.500$.
James Forshaw (Microsoft)
James Forshaw from the United Kingdom analyzed in 2014 a flaw that affected some security issues of the early releases of Windows 8.1. He received a fee of $100,000.
Tune in to SecNews next Sunday for the fourth and final part of the tribute!
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