Internet Bug Bounty Project Receives $300,000 Donation

The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a project whose goal is to make the Web safer by rewarding white hat hackers who find vulnerabilities in core Internet infrastructure and open source software, announced on Friday that it has secured a $300,000 donation. Facebook, GitHub and the Ford Foundation, one of the world’s largest charitable organizations, have each donated $100,000 to the IBB. With their donation, GitHub and the Ford Foundation have joined existing sponsors, Facebook, Microsoft and HackerOne. The IBB rewards researchers who find vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, Nginx, Apache httpd, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Flash, Ruby on Rails, Phabricator, Django, RubyGems and other widely used Internet technologies.