One anonymous Indian hacker — "Geekboy" — has found more than 700 vulnerabilities for companies like Yahoo, Uber and Rockstar Games. "People who build software in many cases also understand how it can be broken," HackerOne co-founder Michiel Prins told AFP by email. Information volunteered by these cyber samaritans is often treated with indifference or suspicion, hackers and tech industry observers told AFP. "But here in India, the email is ignored most of the time," Prakash told AFP from Bangalore where he runs his own cyber security firm AppSecure India. In a mea culpa rare for an Indian tech company, Zomato agreed to launch a "healthy" bounty program and encourage other firms to work with ethical hackers.

Source: Daily Nation May 29, 2017 08:48 UTC