Meet 6 hacker millionaires:
for anyone who can pull of a"zero-click" remote jailbreak of an iPhone. In the meantime, six hackers on the HackerOne bug bounty platform have now made more than $1 million each.on August 29 that six hackers signed up to the bug bounty platform have earned more than $1 million each. HackerOne operates as the conduit between nearly 1,500 organizations, including the likes of General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Spotify, Starbucks, Twitter and even the U.S.
If you need any more convincing that hacking can be a very profitable career path, then you only have to look at the Hacker Summer Camp this year. This is the name given to the week in August that sees both Black Hat USA and DEF CON hacker conferences happening in Las Vegas. At the live" "Before 1999, I was selling computers out of my own little shop on a Scottish high street," he says, adding:"it became apparent there was no money in selling computers, especially on the scale I was dealing at."
Litchfield has never looked back."It’s somewhat like a gauntlet being thrown down," he explains,"begging the question: can you break it? And I try to. A lot of the time I do.", a 35-year-old American, started his hacking career on the wrong side of the tracks. He was convicted in 2000 for stealing AOL accounts to use them for breaking into military computers.
Having found his first bug while still in elementary school, he has gone on to uncover more than 700 vulnerabilities which makes him one of the top three HackerOne hackers. When not hacking, traveling or partying, Naffy can be found contributing to the Hackers Helping Hackers charity which mentors tech-savvy kids for a career in the world of the bug bounty hunter or being instrumental in running Gravity, a security consultancy where he is chief information security officer.
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