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Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program pays out $40,000 in less than a Month

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Aug

2011

It has only been 21 days since the Facebook Bug Bounty Program was announced and yet the company has already paid a total of $40,000 to bounty hunters. The program’s aim is to strengthen Facebook’s defense against attacks by fixing bugs within the system. Their strategy is to entice security researchers with the promise of […]

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Caution: Should You Share Your Location on Facebook?

30

Aug

2011

Facebook recently rolled out a number of changes to the social networking site. One of the changes eliminates the concept of Facebook Places, but instead incorporates location-aware updates at virtually every level of Facebook. You might want to think twice, though, before broadcasting your location to the anonymous masses online. Facebook has had a Foursquare-like […]

Category Security Written by PC World - Security Alert 0 Comments

AES Proved Vulnerable by Microsoft Researchers

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Aug

2011

Researchers from Microsoft and the Dutch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications. Their attack can recover an AES secret key from three to five times faster than previously thought possible, reported the […]

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