Facebook encourages cyber-security poachers turned gamekeepers
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 05/05/2012 19:52
On one of the lesser visited pages of Facebook, there is a list of 109 hackers who have found ways of getting through the company's security firewalls. Facebook is not naming and shaming them. On the contrary, the company has set up the page to thank them "on behalf of our millions of users for making a responsible disclosure".
The hackers have taken part in Facebook's White Hat programme. Anyone who finds a way of breaching the site's networks, and owns up, can earn rewards worth thousands of dollars.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/03/hacking-cybercrime
