Uber, the famous application

Uber, the famous application that allows you to request service drivers and has become terror for taxi companies, invites all hackers to find flaws in their "software" that can potentially affect the safety of users service.

Uber will pay 10 thousand dollars

What's more, not only hackers are invited, Uber award the "hackers" to find as many vulnerabilities and security holes in its platform. The award will be based on the severity of the problem is detected.

Participants who succeed in reaching the most critical error, ie, who leave evidence such as the credit card numbers, bank account numbers and photographs of driving licenses will receive a prize of $ 10,000.

Moreover, for those who discover vulnerabilities that expose achieve telephone numbers, names, dates of birth, etc ..., will receive $ 5,000 as a reward. And for those who find errors listed as "media" which are able to change the images Uber drivers, will get a $ 3,000 reward.

Uber will pay 10 thousand dollars

According Uber explains, this program will start the first of May 2016 and it will last for about 90 days. The company will fully available source code in the hackerone.com platform, which is designed to coordinate cyber attacks, this in order to improve the security of technology companies. If you want to have more information we invite you to the official website hackerone.com

Uber has had some security problems in recent years in their systems. For example, in 2014, a serious error fully exposed the personal information of more than 50,000 drivers in the city of New York. The company touched him wait about five months before notifying each of the drivers, and other than that, was forced to have to pay a fine of $ 20,000.

Uber will pay 10 thousand dollars

"If there is a problem in our platform, we encourage our users and pay lots of money to tell us what is wrong. This can help us improve our system, in addition to finding security bugs, "said Colinn Greene, who is one of the team members Uber security.

So go readying your PC or laptop so that you manage to win one of the prizes that Uber is offering. Those 90 days will the competition be quite interesting.
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