www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/please-hack-us-says-facebook-20120504-1y41a.html By Nick Hopkins smh.com.au May 4, 2012 Hackers who break through the social networking site's firewalls can be rewarded, thanks to the company's White Hat program. 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 program. Anyone who finds a way of breaching the site's networks, and owns up, can earn rewards worth thousands of dollars. As well as money, Facebook promises not to land them in trouble with the police, if they have complied with the program's golden rules. [...] _______________________________________________ LayerOne Security Conference May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA http://www.layerone.orgReceived on Mon May 07 2012 - 01:46:24 PDT
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