Nintendo Offering Bounty to 3DS Bug Hunters
In a partnership with HackerOne, Nintendo is offering cash rewards to whoever finds and reports vulnerabilities in the 3DS. The amount offered ranges from $100 USD to $20,000 USD and Nintendo reserves the discretion as to who will be awarded the cash price and the amount rewarded as well.
Below are examples of types of activities that Nintendo is focused on preventing:
- Piracy, including:
- Game application dumping
- Copied game application execution
- Cheating, including:
- Game application modification
- Save data modification
- Dissemination of inappropriate content to children
- System vulnerabilities regarding the Nintendo 3DS™ family of systems
- Privilege escalation on ARM11 userland
- ARM11 kernel takeover
- ARM9 userland takeover
- ARM9 kernel takeover
- Vulnerabilities regarding Nintendo-published applications for the Nintendo 3DS™ family of systems
- ARM11 userland takeover
- Hardware vulnerabilities regarding the Nintendo 3DS™ family of systems
- Low-cost cloning
- Security key detection via information leaks
*cough* Anyone finding such vulnerabilities is invited to submit a report. *cough*
Feel free to discuss about it in our GBAtemp thread which is already on fire with more than 10000 views as of writing.
Happy Bug Hunting!
SOURCE GBAtemp Thread
like a 250 dollar kit back when DDR4 was Intel only