Manipal: Student Engineering The second year of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), MAHE has won a prize around Rs 2 Lakh as part of the Google & RSQUOR vulnerability gift program; MIT Manipal Tweeted: Sohom Datta, a member of the Cryptonite project team (from CSE DEPT) has identified bugs and valued at $ 3133.7 by the Google vulnerability gift program.
Sohom told Tii, “I was looking for an open source library and found a bug in one of the Google & RSQUOR programs; and reported the same thing.
Google, to respect all the latest external contributions that help maintain the security of their users, maintain a vulnerability gift program For Google’s web properties.
After I reported a bug, I received a message that I was appreciated, “he added that gifts are generally based on the severity of the bug reported.
He is a member of the Cryptonite MIT student project team, Mahe.
The team works in the field of ethical hacking and cybersecurity and focuses on cryptography, forensics, research, back engineering and web exploitation.
He has participated in Google Summer of Code last year and is a mentor in Wikimedia.
This is a global program that focuses on bringing more student developers into the development of open source software.