14 DAY TRIAL // YouPorn, one of the most visited pornography websites in the world, has decided to partner up with HackerOne and launch a bug bounty program with rewards of up to $25,000.
The adult entertainment site is just one of the latest technology brands to choose to have its network tested by white hat hackers in order to help discover and kill any and all bugs that may be present in their system.
The company behind the site says it wants to make sure online visitors are as safe as possible while on their site. Therefore, depending on the importance of the bugs they found, hackers will be rewarded between $50 and $25,000, the latter, of course, for critical weaknesses in their systems.
Alexa ranks YouPorn as the 230th most visited website in the world, while the site apparently claims about a billion video views each month. With numbers as high as these ones, it's no surprise the company behind the site wants to make sure users are safe.
YouPorn is following in the steps of sister company Pornhub which launched its own bug bounty program last year for the same reasons.
"We encourage researchers to reach out and let us know if they find any potential issues, and we will be happy to work to resolve the issue quickly. We guarantee that they are to be fairly rewarded for their time and effort," said YouPorn vice president Brad Burns.
Safer systems, safer users
Bug bounty programs have become increasingly popular over the past few years. On top of companies that run their own programs, such as Google and Facebook, for instance, HackerOne helps companies across the world test out the safety of their systems.
Google, for example, paid $3 million in rewards last year alone, putting the number at $9 million since the program's inception in 2010.
The demand for white hat hackers has grown considerably thanks to such programs, and their numbers have gone up as well. Instead of going rogue, people with this particular set of skills have chosen to help companies provide safer services to people, rather than exploit the vulnerabilities they found.