Facebook,social networking king said it has paid $1 million in the last 2 years for security perpose who reports bugs on its website,with India second recipients b country.
India has over 78 million facebook user is also the
second number of the country that the fastest growing no of bug bounty program.
A bug is an error or defect in software or hardware
that causes a programme converted into malfunction.It often occurs when applications
try to run in tandem.
When bugs can cause software to crash or produce
unexpected results in the software or hardware, certain defects can be used to
gain unauthorised access to systems.
Facebook said it started the Bug Bounty programme more
than two years ago to provide security researchers who report issues and to
encourage people to keep the site safe and secure.
Facebook said on
its websiteThe "programme has been even more successful than we'd
anticipated".
"The countries with the most bounty recipients
are, in order, the US, India, UK, Turkey, and Germany. The countries with the
fastest-growing number of recipients are, in order, the US, India, Turkey,
Israel, Canada, Germany, Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, Sweden, and Russia," it
noted.
Facebook Security Engineer Collin Greene said"Our
Bug Bounty program allows us to harness the talent and perspective of people
from all kinds of backgrounds, from all around the world".
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