Facebook awards 'Internet Defence Prize'


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 21 Aug 2014

WELL DONE: Facebook awarded a prize to a pair of German researchers for their work on detecting vulnerabilities in Web applications.

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Wednesday awarded a US$50,000 (RM158,667) Internet Defense Prize to a pair of German researchers with a seemingly viable approach to detecting vulnerabilities in Web applications. 

Johannes Dahse and Thorsten Holz from Ruhr-Universitt Bochum in Germany won the new cash award for a paper outlining how to find flaws hackers could exploit, according to the California based social network. 

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