Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site as years went on continued to rule in their market.
As they leverage their users who became the instrument why they had been reaping all the success in their business, in return, the Facebook Team pursued the goal of giving the best to their market, may it be on the various features and applications like that of Facebook mobile towards the new privacy policy they had recently implemented to the photo size upgrade.
Adding to their various ways of giving just the best for their market, Facebook continued to boost and to guard their users’ security considering the fact that they had over 750 million members.
Just recently, as their another step of acting as police on their site, Facebook launched a campaign that motivated and encouraged technology enthusiasts especially those who are lovers of finding bugs to spend some of their time in looking on to Facebook and to try watching and searching around what were other possible leaks or weak points of Facebook that might be targeted by hackers who were just around, also doing their studies and own research to Facebook while waiting for perfect timing to attack the world’s most popular social networking site that had started way back 2004.
Facebook had named their action plan as Bug Bounty Program and for the past 21 days as the moved had started to roll out, Facebook had spent $40,000 as reward to those noble security and bug finders who had shared and discovered bugs on Facebook.
How do Facebook named the price? This is how it goes, as Bug Bounty Program centered on the goal of tightening security measures for the site by working with other people, each bugs that might be discovered has an equivalent cost depending on how serious is the case. Based on the report published via bbcnews.com, it was said that Facebook paid $500 (minimum) to $5000 (maximum) for bugs that were really on serious term.
With the launched of Bug Bounty Program, it was expected that Facebook security measures and policy set up would continue to be strengthened. Further reports and update about the progress and the purpose of Bug Bounty Program were posted on the blog of Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan.
To recall, Facebook, in the history of technological innovation and in the rise of modern way of communication had established their name with high integrity despite the issues and criticisms that they had been receiving from competitors and critics.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckeberg who recently named to be one of the most influential name in UK media.
On the other hand, despite Randi Zuckerberg’s decision to quit on Facebook recently to start her own company, it is still expected that Facebook would continue to give the best in innovation and security services to its users worldwide. Aside from the mentioned upgrade, recently, Facebook and Skype merged for better conferencing.
Being a Facebook user, are you willing to contribute for Bug Hunting?
