Facebook announced their biggest payment till date to a Brazilian computer engineer looking for one of the bugs. Reginaldo Silva received $33,500 from the company for his discovery, which has been associated with XML external entity vulnerabilities within PHP site hosted on their servers using OpenID authentication.
Silva found that failure could admit hackers to read almost any file, as well as open network connections to arbitrary social network web server.
On their website, the information security expert Silva in detail the process of error detection, which began in September 2012 when he found the Lack of Google, Which Affected the Implementation of Java, C #, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl and services, including the Google Library program features App engine and Blogger.
No comments :
Post a Comment