Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg's wall
A Palestinian information system expert says he was forced to post a bug report on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page after the social network's security team failed to recognize that a critical vulnerability he found allows anyone to post on someone's wall. The vulnerability, which was reported by a man calling himself ‘Khalil,' allows any Facebook user to post anything on the walls of other users - even when those users are not included in their list of friends. He reported the vulnerability through Facebook's security feedback page, which offered a minimum reward of US$500 for each real security bug report.
However, the social network's security team failed to acknowledge the bug, even though Khalil enclosed a link to a post he made on the timeline of a random girl who studied at the same college as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
"Sorry, this is not a bug," Facebook's security team said in response to Khalil's second report, in which he offered to reproduce the discussed vulnerability on a test account of Facebook security expert. After receiving the reply, Khalil claims he had no choice but to showcase the problem on Mark Zuckerberg's wall.
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LOL! But I guess smart crooks delete their accounts if ever made or make fake ones.. As for the dump ones.. Well they are the ones get caught first obviously...

Also I quote a piece from an article on another website:
"Facebook usually offers bounties for bug reports like this – $20,000 or more per bug, and in total the social network has paid over $1M"
It seems I rushed to early to bash the social network... They do indeed give a sizable reward and actually that's pretty neat. Good for them.
At least they are taking care of their money-well. And "well" as in the structure btw..


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Something tells me he will....Stay tuned for more...
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This isn't nearly as good as the article on TorrentFreak about Prenda Law....lol
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Governments must love Facebook. All they need to do is type a name and up pops the persons picture.