23-Year-old Indian youth earns more than Rs.88 lakh in a year by finding Online Bugs

HIGHLIGHTS: Big companies pay millions of ethical hackers to find and fix bugs on their platforms.

The country tax earns $ 1.25 lakh, or about 88.91 lakh rupees a year, by finding a 23-year-old online bug. Shivam Vashistha of North India is an ethical hacker and is associated with the San Francisco-based HackerOne company that looks for bugs on the company's online platforms. The company has clients such as Starbucks, Instagram, Goldman Sachs, Twitter, Jomato and OnePlus.

Do hacking 15 hours a week

Shivam said that they spend only 15 hours a week hacking. Their schedule varies at different times. Sometimes they work on something continuously for several days and sometimes do not go hacking for weeks. In the last few years he has also started teaching hacking to his brother, helping his father take retirement and taking his family on tours to many places in the world.

Hacking started from the age of 19

He told that he started doing ethical hacking at the age of 19. Initially his family was worried. But gradually he came to understand that ethical hacking is a legally valid work and a career can be made in it. He won the first bounty from Instacart at the age of 20. After this, Bounty won from MasterCard.

India ranked second in ethical hacking last year

Hacker-powered security systems in the Asia-Pacific region have increased by 30 percent in a year. Hackers in the US won 19 percent of the total bounty programs. India finished second with 10 percent bounty. According to HackerOne's Hacker Powered Security Report 2019, India's Ethical Hacker Community received $ 2,336,024 out of the total bounties won in 2018.

Companies give millions of bugs to find bugs

Food delivery platform Zomato has so far given more than Rs 70 lakh to 435 hackers to find and fix bugs on its platform. OnePlus has announced this week that it has set up a Security Response Center that will now offer bounty to security experts. Experts will receive prizes in the range of $ 50 to $ 7,000. Apple has also opened a bug bounty program where security researchers will be given a bounty of between $ 1 million to $ 1 million to find the bug.

Source: Web