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Title: Facebook Offers Cash To 'Bug Bounty Hunters' At DefCon Hacker Conference
Post by: THP on Aug 06, 2011, 09:02 PM
LAS VEGAS -- At the DefCon hacker conference (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/06/defcon-hacker-conference-_n_920045.html) this weekend in Las Vegas, a team from Facebook has been making the rounds and delivering an unusual message: Please hack us. We'll pay you for it.The team, led by Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, is promoting the company's new "bug bounty program," which pays researchers to report security flaws in the social-networking site of more than 750 million active users.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/06/facebook-bug-bounty_n_920018.html)

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