Security News > 2021 > February > Facebook Announces Payout Guidelines for Bug Bounty Program
Facebook on Tuesday announced several new features for its bug bounty program, including an educational resource and payout guidelines.
The payout guidelines provide insight into the process used by the company to determine rewards for certain vulnerability categories.
Payment guidelines are currently available for page admin vulnerabilities, for which the top bounty is $5,000, server-side request forgery, with a maximum reward of $40,000, and bugs in mobile apps, for which the bounty is capped at $45,000.
The social media giant also announced the launch of Facebook Bug Bounty Academy, a resource whose goal is to provide information for bug bounty hunters on the best ways to test the company's services and how to improve their chances of finding valid vulnerabilities.
"Our goal is to provide a launchpad for new researchers beginning to hunt on the Facebook program and explain the specific aspects of this program that make it different from other bug bounty programs," Facebook said.
The social media company announced in November that it had paid out more than $11.7 million in bug bounties since the launch of its program in 2011, including nearly $2 million in 2020.