Begusarai: A local boy claims to have found a potential bug on Google, which according to search engines can lead a hacker to succeed in attacking his security and needs to be repaired.
Rituraj Chodhary, a second year student IIIt-Manipur, claimed that as a “passionate bug hunters”, he reported a potential vulnerability to the company, who recognized the threat and gave him a place in the list of researchers.
Rituraj shares a link with this newspaper – bughunters.google.com – which mentions the “Tiger” award category in its profile.
He also shares content from email, which talks about Google’s “vulnerability award program” for software researchers to identify bugs and reports to fix this problem.
“In cybersecurity, bugs are considered on the scale to P0.
When a bug is found, it is assessed.
Bug hunters are needed to bring it to the P0 level, it means full vulnerability.
The organization in question requested hunters bugs to report these stages, so they can repair The gap, “Rituraj said, added that in his case, he managed to take the threat level of measuring P2 on the scale.
“Loophole can be enough to allow hackers to violate and get access to data and compromise with the privacy associated with it,” he said, adding that Google admitted bugs and was in the process of fixing it.
“Even though I’m still working on this problem, companies that value my services, give me a place in the list of researchers,” he said.
Rituraj said he would be entitled to the monetary benefit of the company, if he managed to get it to the level of P0.
Engineering students say he has been excited about the hunt bugs from a very runny age.
“I am attracted to the fields when in high school and aspiring to go to Israel or Germany to specialize in after BTECH because both countries are considered ‘Mecca’ Siber’s education,” he said.
Rituraj Rakesh Kumar Choudhary’s father runs a jewelry store in the main city area here while his mother Sunita Jaiswal is a housewife.
Rakesh said the rituraj was very skeptical about his son’s desire.