Twitter awards $10,080 to ****** for discovering security flaw in Vine
 

Twitter awards $10,080 to ****** for discovering security flaw in Vine
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Twitter has awarded an Indian white-hat ****** $10,080 (Rs 6,80,000) for discovering a security flaw in Vine, its short-form video platform. The ******, Avinash Singh, was able to use the exploit to access the service's source code.*

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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...

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