Facebook Will Pay Anybody Who Can Hack Its Site and Find Bugs

By Jane Gracielo, on August 31st, 2011%
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Facebook is ready to pay anybody who effectively hacks into its site and locates bugs.

It has paid out over $40,000 under its latest “bug bounty”, which requests professional security researchers and hackers to send it the details of some Facebook susceptibilities that they uncover, Facebook formerly said.

Joe Sullivan, Facebook Chief Security officer wrote in a blog post, “We’ve already paid a $5,000 bounty for one really good report.  One person has already received more than $7,000 for six different issues flagged.”

According to Facebook, Researchers from over 16 countries have . . . → Read More: Facebook Will Pay Anybody Who Can Hack Its Site and Find Bugs

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Apple Accepts iPhone Hacker Comex on an Internship

By Jharma Mulchandani, on August 27th, 2011%
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JailbreakMe2 and JailbreakaMe3’s author has taken an internship at Apple.

Apple by now has significant engineering ability at its disposal, but the company is obviously adding one more set of hands to the mix, only to keep things interesting.  Nicholas Allegra, also known as Comex, has revealed that he is accepted on an internship at Apple.  It would not awfully be unusual to hear about a bright 19-year-old taking on an internship at Apple, except that Allegra is the author of JailbreakMe 2 and JailbreakMe 3, two hacks which allowed iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad possessors . . . → Read More: Apple Accepts iPhone Hacker Comex on an Internship

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