OnePlus announces $7000 bug bounty programme, partners with HackerOne
Premium smartphone maker OnePlus on Thursday announced that it will offer a bug bounty offering upto USD 7,000 (about Rs 4.9 lakh) to security experts who discover and report potential threats to OnePlus' systems. The company has also partnered with HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform as part of its efforts to better protect users from cyber threats. OnePlus Global Security Response Centre will engage academics and security professionals to responsibly discover, disclose and re-mediate issues that could affect the security of OnePlus' systems and will help OnePlus proactively counter potential external threats to user security, OnePlus said in a statement. Security researchers around the world can proactively search for and report OnePlus-related security issues through the new bug bounty programme. "Rewards for qualifying bugs reports will range from USD 50 to USD 7,000, depending on the potential impact of the threat," the statement said. R