CloudFlare launches bug bounty program

From InfoWorld: CloudFlare started a bug bounty program on Monday, joining a host of companies that are turning to independent security researchers to spot bugs in their network.

The San Francisco-based company runs a widely used global content delivery network that keeps copies of websites in various data centers in order to speed loading times and reduce bandwidth usage. It also offers security features.

Companies including Facebook, Google and Yahoo offer up to thousands of dollars in rewards for finding software vulnerabilities, based on how potentially damaging they are.

Earlier this year, Facebook awarded its highest bounty yet of US$33,500 to an engineer in Brazil for finding an error that could have allowed access to almost any file on Facebook's servers.

CloudFlare isn't giving monetary awards. Instead, it created what it describes as an exclusive t-shirt with an emblem of a bug over the phrase "Venator Erroru," which roughly means bug hunter.

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