Bug hunter finds backdoor in Facebook left by another bug hunter

Bug hunter finds backdoor in Facebook left by another bug hunter

April 25, 2016 | NSFOCUS

SC Magazine 

A security researcher has managed to gain access to one of Facebook’s corporate servers only to discover a backdoor left by another security researcher. According to Orange Tsai, a penetration tester at Devcore, a security consultancy in Taiwan,  the backdoor was discovered after the researcher started mapping out Facebook’s infrastructure beyond its social media services. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of cloud told SCMagazineUK.com that bug hunters do have to go the “extra mile” to provide proof of concepts. To read the full article, please click here.

 

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