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Subject: [ISN] PayPal opens bug bounty program to minors
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-07-26 9:54:01
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1307260953510.4236 () infosecnews ! org
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https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241075/PayPal_opens_bug_bounty_program_to_minors
By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
July 25, 2013
PayPal is opening up its bug bounty program to individuals aged 14 and
older, a move intended to reward younger researchers who are technically
ineligible to hold full-fledged PayPal accounts.
PayPal's program, which is a year old this month, only applied to those 18
years and older. Under the old rule, participants in the program were
required to hold valid accounts, which excluded minors, said Gus Anagnos,
PayPal's director of information security.
In May, 17-year-old Robert Kugler, a student in Germany, said he'd been
denied a reward for finding a vulnerability. PayPal said the bug had
already been found by two other researchers, which would have made Kugler
ineligible for bounty.
In an apparent miscommunication, Kugler said he was initially told he was
too young rather than the bug had already been discovered. Nonetheless,
PayPal said it would look to bring younger people into its program, which
pays upwards of $10,000 for remote code execution bugs on its websites.
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