It's known that the company will provide financial assistance if the social media giant finds mistakes on Facebook. Earlier, an enthusiast from Kerala gave a reward of Rs 8 lakh. The latest was a $ 1.98 million (Rs. 14.98 crore) bounty. That means this money is not for everyone. The money was distributed to bug hunters on Facebook from a total of 107 countries. According to Facebook, India, Tunisia and the United States are the top three countries in the world.
Facebook presented the money as an award under the Bug Bounty Program. Researchers and cybersecurity experts have been successful in trying to find bugs in this platform. Launched Facebook to increase security and privacy through this program. The winners will have the opportunity to work with Facebook Security and engineering teams. "When we receive a valid report, we look not only at the report it submits, but also at the underlying area of the code for a more in-depth understanding of the issue. Sometimes an investigation in terms of security can lead to the discovery of relevant improvements to protect the active, privacy better," Facebook security engineering manager Dan Gurfinkel posted on his blog.
The program was launched in 2011. Entered its tenth year with this year. There were 13,000 reports in this regard. 6,900 of them were also rewarded. This year too, Facebook received 17,000 reports. Awarded prizes for over 1000 of these reports. Leading researcher Salamet Harianto received the highest bounty of $ 80,000. The award was given for finding an issue that has a lesser impact on the content delivery network. These global network servers deliver content to Facebook users around the world. After resolving this bug, Facebook internal researchers discovered a very rare case. Advanced attackers are more likely to run remote code. Other companies, including Facebook, have similar bounty programs to keep their platforms secure. In some cases independent research has been put forward to highlight security issues.
In September, Uber Indian cyber security researcher Ananda Prakash discovered the hacking bug. He was paid $ 6,500. Fixed vulnerability to take over Uber account. This allowed other users' accounts to be attacked, including Uber partners and Uber Eats users.
Similarly independent security researchers Ehraz Ahmed found a flaw in telecom giant Airtel. It has been found that this may harm the sensitive information of any Airtel subscribers. Ahmed said there was an error in their API. Interestingly, a concept video was published online to inform about the bug. This allows researchers to find flaws in Facebook Instagram.
Laxman Muthiah, a security researcher from Chennai, found another bug on Instagram and WhatsApp. This includes photo sharing which allows someone to hack a social networking service. Muthiah discovered that the unique identifier used by the Instagram server to verify the password reset code could be used to request the same ID multiple users' multiple passcodes.
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