Russian IT company Yandex announced the expansion of its program for finding bugs in its smart devices: both the number of gadgets participating in the program and the amount of rewards given to “white hat” hackers who detect vulnerabilities have increased. socialbites.ca was informed about this by the Yandex press service.
The program is filled with devices such as “Duo Max Station”, “Midi Station” and “TV Station”. The reward for bug hunters (so-called “white hat” hackers who look for vulnerabilities in other people’s products for a fee – editor’s note) increased from 600 thousand rubles. up to one million. The amount of payment will depend on the severity of the error found.
“This [увеличение награды] “It will help attract more ‘white hat’ hackers to test the strength of the devices,” Yandex said.
Over the last few years, Yandex has been increasing its investments in the information security of its products. Thus, in 2023 the company has invested more than 6 billion rubles in this area, which is twice as much as in the previous year. This money was spent on the development of secure data storage systems, technologies that protect against DDoS attacks and fraud, access control systems and more.
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