Security News > 2015 > August > Facebook Awards $100,000 for New Class of Vulnerabilities and Detection Tool (Threatpost)
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2015-08-12 23:00
Facebook doubles the payout of its Internet Defense Prize with a $100,000 award to a team of Georgia Tech researchers for a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and a corresponding detection technique.