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Facebook announced that they have paid a total of $ 40,000 to the hackers who reported various bugs in the site as part of a program launched three weeks ago through which the hackers were encouraged to report directly to Facebook the problems discovered instead of making them public.
The social network is offering at least $ 500 for a “bug” detected, and they have paid $ 7,000 to a person who reported more problems. Companies like Google and Mozilla have recently launched such programs.
Facebook says the new program of inviting hackers to “hunt” bugs and to report directly to the company the vulnerabilities discovered is having a great success. The company paid in three weeks $ 40,000 to those who have reported various errors, the lowest amount offered being $ 500, and the highest, $ 7,000 to a hacker who reported six complex problems.
Those from Facebook said they were pleased with the feedback received and say they have received reports from 16 countries, from Turkey to Poland. There are some voices that have asked Facebook to extend this program across the entire platform, a program that would also include the websites with plug-ins for Facebook. Company’s officials have said that, for now, such an extension is way too complicated. On the other hand, Facebook has created a security platform that is “watching” the efficiency of the security measures that the company’s partners are implementing.
Facebook improves the photo-viewer
Observing an upload rate of 250 million photos per day, Facebook said they definitely want to improve this function and one of these improvements, released last week, shows the photos at a higher resolution. The images are now displayed at 960 pixels, instead of 720p.
The company has also optimized the photo viewer after the feedback received from users. Now you can see a white background instead of the black one. Not all users will observe the improvements immediately, the company saying the changes will be introduced gradually over several days.
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