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07-26-2016, 08:30 PM
Twitter awards $10,080 to ****** for discovering security flaw in Vine
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Twitter has awarded an Indian white-hat ****** (https://www.techopedia.com/definition/10349/white-hat-******) $10,080 (Rs 6,80,000) for discovering a security flaw in Vine (http://mashable.com/category/vine/), its short-form video platform. The ******, Avinash Singh, was able to use the exploit to access the service's source code.*
SEE ALSO: India leads Facebook's Bug Bounty with highest awards and participation (http://mashable.com/2016/03/18/india-facebook-bug-bounty/)
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 ******One.*
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... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/twitter-indian-******-security-flaw-vine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Twitter has awarded an Indian white-hat ****** (https://www.techopedia.com/definition/10349/white-hat-******) $10,080 (Rs 6,80,000) for discovering a security flaw in Vine (http://mashable.com/category/vine/), its short-form video platform. The ******, Avinash Singh, was able to use the exploit to access the service's source code.*
SEE ALSO: India leads Facebook's Bug Bounty with highest awards and participation (http://mashable.com/2016/03/18/india-facebook-bug-bounty/)
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 ******One.*
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... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/twitter-indian-******-security-flaw-vine/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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