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December 18, 2015 10:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LAMpOcpu2Vc/facebook-researcher-spar-over-instagram-flaw-disclosure
Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure
msm1267 writes: A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures that not only tested the boundaries of the social network's bug bounty program, but he said, also prompted hints of legal and criminal action, which Facebook has since denied. Wesley Wineberg, a contract employee of security company Synack, said today that he had found some weaknesses in the Instagram infrastructure that allowed him to access source code for recent versions of Instagram, SSL certificates and private keys for Instagram.com, keys used to sign authentication cookies, email server credentials, and keys for more than a half-dozen critical other functions, including iOS and Android app signing keys and iOS push notification keys. Wineberg also accessed employee accounts and passwords, some of which he cracked, and had access to Amazon buckets storing user images and other data prompting claims of user privacy violations from Facebook.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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