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Facebook Denies Zuck Wall Hacker $500 Reward, Internet Gives Him $10K

Remember our friendly white hat hacker , Khalil Shreateh, who got stiffed on his just reward after identifying a Facebook bug that let him post on Zuckerberg’s wall? Well, looks like the hacker community has no intention of letting their buddy’s bank account fall to the wayside. After setting up a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe , security researcher Marc Maiffret has successfully collected $10, 000 in donations for Shreateh—a full 20 times more than Facebook’s withheld offering. Read more…        

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Facebook Denies Zuck Wall Hacker $500 Reward, Internet Gives Him $10K

The NSA Mines an Insane Amount of Data From Every Tech Service You Use

Wow. Nothing is sacred. The Washington Post has discovered that the NSA and FBI have teamed up to tap into the servers of nine US tech companies—Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, you name it—and have extracted e-mails, photographs, audio, video, documents and connection logs. They basically have free reign to take whatever they want. And they’ve been doing it since 2007. Read more…        

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The NSA Mines an Insane Amount of Data From Every Tech Service You Use