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Dropbox to pay security researchers for bugs

  • April 16, 2015
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By Jeremy Kirk

Dropbox, which has not set a maximum reward, joins the list of companies crowdsourcing parts of their security testing.

 
Dropbox said Wednesday it will pay rewards to independent researchers who find software flaws in its applications, joining a growing list of companies who see merit in crowdsourcing parts of their security testing.
 
The popular file storage service previously publicly recognized researchers, but did not pay a reward, also sometimes referred to as a bug bounty.
 
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