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July 26, 2016 04:30 pm GMT
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Twitter awards $10,080 to hacker for discovering security flaw in Vine
Twitter has awarded an Indian white-hat hacker $10,080 (Rs 6,80,000) for discovering a security flaw in Vine, its short-form video platform. The hacker, Avinash Singh, was able to use the exploit to access the service's source code.
Singh reported the issue to Twitter in March. Soon after, the company fixed the flaw and gave him a reward of $10,080 through the bug bounty startup HackerOne.
Singh, who goes by the pseudonym "avicoder," says he has hunted down 15 bugs in Twitter so far. He found this particular security hole while investigating vulnerabilities with Censys.io, a network-scanning search engine. He discovered that he was able to download Vine's entire source code through a public docker image. Read more...
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