After offering one hacker a grand total of $25 dollars to buy Yahoo-themed swag (such as T-shirts, “poopy bag dispensers,” or purple rubber ducks), Yahoo is getting serious at rewarding friendly hackers, announcing a program that will offer rewards of up to $15,000.
The company said on Thursday that it had been planning to announce the program for the last month, but decided to fast-track the launch after the incident it referred to as “t-shirt-gate.”
In a blog post titled “So I’m the guy who sent the t-shirt out as a thank you,” Yahoo’s security team director Ramses Martinez revealed that, until now, he personally sent researchers T-shirts and thank you notes as reward for uncovering vulnerabilities or bugs and reporting them to Yahoo Read more…
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