He found the error of Firefox, grabbed $ 3000!

In July 2010, Mozilla announced that it would give rewards between $500-3000 to anyone who found a bug in the Firefox browser. 12-year-old Alexander Miller also worked on the scanner and spent 1-2 hours in front of the computer in his spare time from school and found a critical error in 10 days. succeeded. The teenager who reported this mistake to Mozilla won the 3000 dollar prize. At first his family didn’t believe it, but when they saw the check, they were proud with their son. You can click here to get information about the bug Alexander found.

Currently, Google is also promising a similar reward to those who can find hacks in their Chrome browser. You can find that topic here. Microsoft, on the other hand, says that instead of rewarding those who find faults in their own products, it is in favor of giving job to people with high level of security knowledge to work within the company.

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