Facebook Pays $40G to Hackers in New ‘Bug Bounty’ Scheme
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Published August 31, 2011
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MENLO PARK, Calif. – Since launching its “bug bounty” program three weeks ago, Facebook has forked out $40,000 to hackers who detected security flaws on the social networking site.
About fifty people who have successfully identified problems have been acknowledged on Facebook’s “whitehat” — geek-speak for a hacker who is a good guy — site, and to date, Facebook has paid one individual $7,000 for flagging six issues and $5,000 for a particularly bad flaw, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.
“We realize … that there are many talented and well-intentioned security experts around the world who don’t work for Facebook,” Facebook’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, wrote on the company’s blog Monday.
“We established this bug bounty program in an effort to recognize and reward these individuals for their good work and encourage others to join,” he added.
Facebook said that while it had received time-wasting alerts from people “looking for publicity,” the program was a success.
The social networking site promises hackers protection from legal action if they have to break the law to spot a security issue on Facebook.
“If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you,” Facebook said.
Facebook is not the first tech company to offer such rewards, with Google and Mozilla running similar schemes to pay hackers who identify vulnerabilities in their systems.
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Funny Status Updates for Facebook iOS App Gets LIKEd. Epic Social Networking …
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Funny Status Updates for Facebook iOS App Gets LIKEd. Epic Social Networking App is Celebrating it’s 1,000,000th Status Update!
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This EPIC app has consistently ranked within the Top 25 Paid apps for Social Networking within the US App Store. The average status update gets more than 9.4 Comments/LIKEs per post. Statuses are categorized in an easy to read format and you can edit them before posting for originality. Now celebrating over 1,000,000 status updates created this app can please every social networker!
Making funny statuses is no easy task. So, leave it to the professionals at FunnyStatus.com which boasts over 20,000+ unique and Clever Status Updates for any occasion. Whether they’re status updates about life, love, or work, this app has everyone covered. Don’t post boring old Quotes or Song Lyrics. Post something with substance that Facebook friends and followers will enjoy and interact with.
With 30,000+ LIKEs on Facebook, it’s easy to see why people love the website’s hilarious daily updates. The site has tons of cool features like: Random Status Generator, Profile Banners/Headers, Symbols for Facebook, and Text Tools that make a status unique. This isn’t just another adorable cat pictures website. Although, there is plenty of that too.
Folks interested in spicing up their Status Updates should head over to FunnyStatus.com and join the community of thousands making the internet more enjoyable one status at a time.
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