Meta, which is the new name for Facebook, has expanded its bug bounty programme to reward researchers for finding vulnerabilities and bugs in scraped data. Data scraping is how Meta mass-collects personal information from users’ profiles, such as profile photos, email addresses, and phone numbers, through automated tools. Researchers who can find bugs in already scraped data as well as …
Facebook has formally open-sourced one of its secret security tools for Instagram that finds and fixes bugs. "We've made Pysa open source, together with many of the definitions required to help it find security issues, so that others can use the tool for their own Python code," Facebook said in a statement on Friday. According to the company, Pysa detected …