Tuesday, October 26, 2010

12 Year Old make money using Firefox flaw

The security researcher who found and reported this critical buffer overflow and memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla’s Firefox browser is none other than Alex Miller, a 12-year-old boy who earned a $3,000 bounty for his discovery.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Miller (right) was motivated to search for Firefox security holes after Mozilla increased its bug bounty from $500 to $3,000.

Isn't that easy way to make money online? If you are good at testing softwares this might be a better way to make couple of thousands dollars.

Firefox fix the bug in in Firefox 3.6.11 and Firefox 3.5.14.

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