While not all may think of black hat hacking as a career option, but exceptions do exist.
In this article I am trying to give you reasons why black hat hacking sucks as a career option.
First and foremost you better understand what is black hat hacking.
Black Hat hacker is a hacker who has fallen over to the dark side, pun intended.
Black hat hackers are also known as crackers or dark-side hackers.
The general view is that, while hackers build things, crackers break things.
They are computer security hackers that break into computers and networks or also create computer viruses for profit.
They mostly inform the company about the bug they have discovered to claim bug bounty.
And they command respect in the security researchers circle as well as among tech companies.
Google Inc. has been running a Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) since 2010.
Consider the case of a top researcher, who goes by the Twitter Handle @heisecode.
@heisecode earned $75,750 by reporting 26 valid vulnerability reports to Android security team.
Similarly, another 15 ethical hackers also made $10,000 or more each.
Google has put upa listof successful researchers in the acknowledgements section of the Android security page.
According to Google, it paid out a total of $550,000 to 82 individuals over the year.
Now considering you are thinking of joining the black hat hackers band kindly note this fact.
Do you know what else earned that much?
While MySpace hacker gave out the data base for as little as $100 to buyers.
Another hacker was selling Gmail ids and passwords for $2000 in bitcoins.
All high quality vulnerability reports will now be paid 33% extra.
A high quality report is one that includes a proof of concept (POC).
Many more companies are joining Google in wooing hackers to the Jedi fold.
source: www.techworm.net
