Facebook Broadens Its Bug Bounty to Help Fix Third-Party Apps

referring to Facebook will now accept reports about not just about vulnerabilities in its own products, but in third-party apps and services that connect to Facebook user accounts. Users are also responsible for managing the permissions of third-party apps, which can be a confusing and opaque process. By now including third-party apps, Facebook shows its awareness of the additional security and privacy risks that can come from external service integrations. Facebook says that as part of this bug bounty expansion, it will take on the responsibility of liaising with third-party developers to help resolve their bugs. In 2017 the platform's bug bounty paid out an average of $1,900 per bug, with some individual rewards in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Let's Stop Pretending Facebook and Twitter's CEOs Can't Fix This Mess

The core problem is that these CEOs are actually making totally logical decisions every step of the way. But the way investors, companies, and even many users value engagement has a fundamental flaw exposed ruthlessly in the past couple of years. In the earliest days, it wasn't always obvious what these platforms were doing and what they would become—even to insiders. It often feels like a game of whack-a-mole; something we can't fix without CEOs making change a priority. The second step is learning more about the problem, who is affected, how interactions become engagement, and how to distinguish between positive engagement and negative ones.

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?

as declared in At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. And the question Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with is: Should my company be the arbiter of truth and decency for two billion people? He's only had the experience he's had, and being Mark Zuckerberg is pretty extraordinary."Long before it seemed inevitable or even plausible, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg had an outsized sense of his own potential. Of his father, Zuckerberg told me, "He was a dentist, but he was also a huge techie. In Facebook, Zuckerberg had found the instrument to achieve his conception of greatness.

collected by :Roy Mark