Instagram Patches Brute-Force Authentication Flaws (Threatpost)

2016-05-20 19:15

Facebook paid researcher Arne Swinnen a $5,000 bounty for a pair of authentication vulnerabilities in Instagram that enabled brute-force attacks against usernames and passwords.

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http://threatpost.com/instagram-patches-brute-force-authentication-flaws/118222/

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