Allegations of a dust-up over Instagram leads to a rare public look at the tech industry’s use of “bug bounties” to identify security flaws.
A security researcher’s discovery and publicizing of Instagram security flaws has lead to a war of words with Facebook. As reported by industry publication Threatpost, the researcher accused Facebook of hinting at legal and criminal action after he posted on a blog about security vulnerabilities on the system—and that he cracked employee accounts and passwords in the process.
