Facebook took $ 40,000 in three weeks for payments to users who found a bug and security breaches
Facebook has paid $ 40,000 in three weeks in which users program the company offers a free evening of networking and social security issues. The purpose of the program, called Bug Bounty, is to encourage hackers and security researchers for Facebook to loopholes that can be used as an assault against her, when the minimum payment for finding a bug is $ 500. The users picked up the gauntlet, and will know the Facebook network problems. For example, one security researcher found six serious bugs on the network and he received a payment of $ 7,000. Another user was $ 5,000 for a serious security breach detection. Fifty people were identified network problems but also paid credit to the official page of Facebook's security project. However, Facebook does not include third-party applications operation which sometimes are destined for malicious purposes, but only the site code itself. "We understand that there are many talented security professionals worldwide who do not work for Facebook. We set up the program to identify and reward the same people on the good work and encourage them to join," wrote Joe Salbin, responsible for Facebook's security chief official company blog. Facebook has even promised protection from hackers turn legal action in cases where they break the law to find a network security problem. Along with important updates received by Facebook, she received quite a few false warnings, but she says this does not deter her from continuing the program. Facebook is not the first such program was developed. Preceded by Google Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation, who offered rewards for hackers to block security breaches Bmarkotihn.
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