Home › Engineer nets $33,500 -- Facebook's biggest bug bounty
 

Keywords :   


Engineer nets $33,500 -- Facebook's biggest bug bounty

2014-01-23 13:37:12| InfoWorld: Top News

Last November Reginaldo Silva, a computer engineer in Brazil, found one of the worst kinds of vulnerabilities in Facebook's software. It has netted him the biggest bug bounty the social network has ever paid out, but while he's not complaining, it wasn't quite the windfall he hoped for. The bug related to code used for OpenID, an authentication system that lets people use the same login credentials for multiple online services.

Tags: bug biggest engineer nets

Category:Information Technology

Latest from this category

All news
»
06.07Tropical Storm Beryl Public Advisory Number 29A
06.07Summary for Tropical Storm Beryl (AT2/AL022024)
06.07Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
06.07Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
05.07Tropical Storm Beryl Potential Storm Surge Flooding Map
05.07Tropical Storm Beryl Probabilistic Storm Surge Graphics
05.07Tropical Storm Beryl Storm Surge Watch/Warning Map
05.07Tropical Storm Beryl Storm Surge Watch/Warning Map
More »