Facebook bounty hunters will be placed into tiers by analyzing their score, signal and number of submitted bug reports — which will dictate new bonus percentages. Facebook has lifted the curtain on ...

This has not been Facebook's proudest year for privacy and security. The company faced the massive Cambridge Analytica data misuse and abuse scandal in April and beyond. It also disclosed its first ...

Despite its best damage-control efforts, Facebook is still dogged by its checkered past on data privacy. But at least some of the security mechanisms the company has put in place are catching problems ...

It is time to unleash your inner Boba Fett. Facebook just announced a bounty program that will award people who uncover data abuses. The program offers up to $40,000 USD for substantiated cases.

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Facebook will expand its security flaw reporting program to allow users to report potential misuse of data by app developers, the company’s latest reaction to massive backlash over the Cambridge ...

Facebook has awarded $30,000 to a researcher for reporting vulnerabilities in Instagram's privacy features. According to a Medium blog post penned by bug bounty hunter Mayur Fartade on Tuesday, a set ...

While earning a $10,000 bounty, a penetration tester called Orange Tsai discovered another hacker’s backdoor already in place on a Facebook server, as reported by The Register. Orange Tsai turned in ...

If you have proof that an app is selling data from Facebook users, Facebook will pay you for it, the company announced Tuesday. It’s the latest in a series of moves by the company in the midst of the ...

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