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https://www.facebook.com/whitehat https://www.facebook.com/whitehat Exclusions The following bugs are not eligible for a bounty (and we do not reco
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat https://www.facebook.com/whitehat
Exclusions
The following bugs are not eligible for a bounty (and we do not recommend testing for these):
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Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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That said, they do appear to be quite hypocritical when it comes to enforcing this, as at least one user on the /r/netsec thread claimed that Facebook paid them for a mail bombing vulnerability.
I guess you have to use this to attack high-profile targets (or Facebook themselves) until they notice.
- chr13 13y agoIt's not clearly stated. I think what they mean to say is DoS on Facebook using brute force mechanism as testing this would bring down the Facebook system itself. Now manipulating Facebook's server to cause the attack, that'd be different I guess.
- mattmanser 13y agoI agree with you, forcing Facebook to be your zombie of doom is very different to attempting to DoS facebook. If you can easily cause any website to become an on demand low orbit ion cannon, they're going to cause problems.
- userbinator 13y ago> If you can easily cause any website to become an on demand low orbit ion cannon You can do this with any website that lets users post links which may or may not be automatically loaded (by other users too). There are tons of these around; forums, blogs, etc. See also: Slashdot effect. That's also a true DDoS, coming from many IPs, as compared with a few of Facebook's servers.