Bug bounties: Facebook, Google, Apple offering millions to entice ‘white hat’ hackers to find their flaws

(Source: he Sydney Morning Herald) Shreateh, a security researcher from Palestine, had discovered a critical bug in Facebook’s software that allowed anyone to post directly on to any user’s wall. After he was ignored by the company’s security team, he took the direct approach to demonstrating the bug – hacking Mark Zuckerberg’s own page. While the incident …