A white hat hacker last week announced the discovery of more than a half-dozen security flaws in some software Facebook used on its corporate network. While performing penetration testing of some third-party software in a network appliance Facebook used, Orange Tsai, a security researcher for Devcore, discovered seven vulnerabilities that attackers could use to compromise a system, as well as a backdoor script left by someone else who’d penetrated the network. The researcher was conducting tests as part of Facebook’s bug bounty program.
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White Hat Finds Security Threats on Facebook’s Corporate Net
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. April 26, 2016 03:45 PMA white hat hacker last week announced the discovery of more than a half-dozen security flaws in some software Facebook used on its corporate network. While performing penetration testing of some third-party software in a network appliance Facebook used, Orange Tsai, a security researcher for Devcore, discovered seven vulnerabilities that attackers could use to compromise a system, as well as a backdoor script left by someone else who’d penetrated the network. The researcher was conducting tests as part of Facebook’s bug bounty program.