Mar 8th 2016
Tech Break 2401
A White Hat hacker found a bug in Facebook
A hacker got $15,000 from a bug bounty
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Iain Thomson from The Register talks to Becky Worley, Jason Howell, and Megan Morrone about a bug that a White Hat hacker found in Facebook. Facebook failed to rate limit PINs on its beta site that was used in the password reset process. The hacker got the $15,000 bug bounty and the flaw was fixed.
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