Top 10 Bug Bounty Programs in 2021

1) Intel

Intel's bounty program mainly targets the company's hardware, firmware, and software.

Limitations: It does not include recent acquisitions, the company's web infrastructure, third-party products, or anything relating to McAfee.

Minimum Payout: Intel offers a minimum amount of $500 for finding bugs in their system.

Maximum Payout: The Company pays $30,000 maximum for detecting critical bugs.

2) Yahoo

Yahoo has its dedicated team that accepts vulnerability reports from security researchers and ethical hackers.

Limitations: The Company does not offer any reward for finding bugs in yahoo.net, Yahoo 7 Yahoo Japan, Onwander and Yahoo operated Word press blogs.

Minimum Payout: There is no set limit on Yahoo for minimum payout.

Maximum Payout: Yahoo can pay $15000 for detecting important bugs in their system.

3) Snapchat

Snapchat security team reviews all vulnerability reports and acts upon them by responsible disclosure. The company, we will acknowledge your submission within 30 days.

Minimum Payout: Snapchat will pay minimum $2000.

Maximum Payout: Maximum they will pay is $15,000.

4) Cisco

Cisco encourages individuals or organization that are experiencing a product security issue to report them to the company.

Minimum Payout: Cisco's minimum payout amount is $100.

Maximum Payout: Company will give maximum $2,500 to finding serious vulnerabilities.

5) Dropbox

Dropbox bounty program allows security researchers to report bugs and vulnerabilities on the third party service HackerOne.

Minimum Payout: The minimum amount paid is $12,167.

Maximum Payout: The maximum amount offered is $32,768.

6) Apple

When Apple first launched its bug bounty program it allowed just 24 security researchers. The framework then expanded to include more bug bounty hunters.

The company will pay $100,000 to those who can extract data protected by Apple's Secure Enclave technology.

Minimum Payout: There is no limited amount fixed by Apple Inc.

Maximum payout: The highest bounty given by Apple is $200,000 for security issues affecting its firmware.

7) Facebook

Under Facebook's bug bounty program users can report a security issue on Facebook, Instagram, Atlas, WhatsApp, etc.

Limitations: There are a few security issues that the social networking platform considers out-of-bounds.

Minimum Payout: Facebook will pay a minimum of $500 for a disclosed vulnerability.

Maximum Payout: There is no upper limit fixed by Facebook for the Payout.

8) Google

Every content in the .google.com, .blogger, youtube.com are open for Google's vulnerability rewards program.

Limitations: This bounty program only covers design and implementation issues.

Minimum Payout: Google will pay minimum $300 for finding security threads.

Maximum Payout: Google will pay the highest bounty of $31.337 for normal Google applications.

9) Quora

Quora offers Bug Bounty program to all users and researchers to find and report security vulnerabilities.

Minimum Payout: Quora will pay minimum $100 for finding vulnerabilities on their site.

Maximum Payout: Maximum payout offered by this site is $7000.

10) Mozilla

Mozilla rewards for vulnerability discoveries by ethical hackers and security researchers.

Limitations: The bounty is offered only for bugs in Mozilla services, such as Firefox, Thunderbird and other related applications and services.

Minimum Payout: Minium amount given by Firefox is $500.

Maximum Payout: The Company is paying a maximum of $5000.

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