EPISODE · Dec 14, 2018 · 5 MIN
Facebook, Under Scrutiny, Pays Out Largest Bug Bounty Yet
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
This has not been Facebook's proudest year for privacy and security. The company faced the massive Cambridge Analytica data misuse and abuse scandal in April and beyond. It also disclosed its first data breach in October, which compromised information from 30 million accounts. But Facebook has at least one security-focused bright spot it can point to in 2018: its bug bounty. Bug bounties are programs that let security researchers submit potential flaws and vulnerabilities in a company's software. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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This has not been Facebook's proudest year for privacy and security. The company faced the massive Cambridge Analytica data misuse and abuse scandal in April and beyond. It also disclosed its first data breach in October, which compromised information from 30 million accounts. But Facebook has at least one security-focused bright spot it can point to in 2018: its bug bounty. Bug bounties are programs that let security researchers submit potential flaws and vulnerabilities in a company's software.
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