{"id":166664,"date":"2016-05-30T10:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166664"},"modified":"2016-05-30T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:36:40","slug":"r234000-for-a-twitter-remote-code-execution-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/166664-r234000-for-a-twitter-remote-code-execution-vulnerability.html","title":{"rendered":"R234,000 for a Twitter remote code execution vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2016\/bug-bounty-2-years-in\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it has paid out $322,420 (R5 million) to researchers who have reported bugs to the company over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said its engagement with the infosec community through its bug bounty programme is a key component to strengthening the service&#8217;s\u00a0security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the two years since launch, we\u2019ve received 5,171 submissions to our programme from 1,662 researchers,\u201d said Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also offer a minimum of $15,000 for remote code execution vulnerabilities, but we have yet to receive such a report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of Twitter\u2019s bug bounty programme for the past two years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20% of resolved bugs have been publicly disclosed.<\/li>\n<li>It has paid $322,420 to researchers.<\/li>\n<li>The average payout is $835.<\/li>\n<li>The lowest\u00a0payout was $140, and the highest payout was $12,040.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015, a single researcher made over $54,000 from\u00a0reporting vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/165298-twitter-testing-periscope-live-broadcast-button.html\"><strong>Twitter testing Periscope live broadcast button<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/165250-twitter-to-change-its-140-character-measurement.html\"><strong>Twitter to change its 140-character measurement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/156815-how-many-south-africans-are-on-facebook-and-twitter.html\"><strong>How many South Africans are on Facebook and Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two years, Twitter has paid out over R5 million to researchers who have reported bugs to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-166664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166690,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166664\/revisions\/166690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}