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    ON ETHICAL HACKING AND THE BUDDING BUG BOUNTY HUNTING BUSINESS

    May 02, 2019 4 minutes
    By Zachary Chan
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    Veronica Tay

    What is this whole bug bounty business all about?

    Ok so now there’s a trend coming up which is bug bounty hunting, where white hat hackers report bugs and get rewarded. There are a lot of public bug bounty programs from big companies like Google, Facebook, and even Grab.

    “We created a platform for companies to be able to hire hackers to test their system really easily—as easy as hiring an Uber.”

    How big of an industry is this?

    In Asia, it is still very immature. But even the (Singapore) government has finally started going into the bug bounty direction, and more mindsets will start changing and be more open to this. They’ve done two successful programs already, and

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