Facebook pays hackers over $400,000 to hunt down security bugs
At the Defcon hacker conference this week in Las Vegas, Facebook is not only recruiting new security experts, but is also spreading the word about bountines it’s issuing — on its own bugs. “The internet is hostile, you have to assume that people are trying to break in,” Facebook Security team member Fred Wolens told The Verge . Facebook has offered rewards to hackers before, and has even hired quite a few high-profile hackers , but never this formally. While “bug bounties” for hackers previously covered bugs in Facebook product, bounties now cover Facebook servers and infrastructure as well. The company has already handed out over $400,000 in bounties thus far, with each bounty reward ranging between $500 (the minimum) and $10,000 for a…
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Facebook pays hackers over $400,000 to hunt down security bugs
