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Facebook's Red Team X Hunts Bugs Beyond the Social Network's Walls

The inside of hacking body of workers has spent the ultimate one year looking for vulnerabilities inside the products the company uses, which may in turn make the complete internet more secure.
The internal hacking team has spent the last year looking for vulnerabilities in the products the company uses, which could in turn make the whole internet safer.

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Author: Lily Hay Newman

Lily Hay Newman has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "A few months ago, Facebook disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. They only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission". (February 7, 2020)
  2. "A class action lawsuit. Rampant zoombombing. And as of today, two new zero-day vulnerabilities". (April 1, 2020)
  3. "More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report". (April 22, 2020)
  4. "The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers". (April 7, 2021)
  5. "Candidates can also get trained up on how to use Advanced Protection to keep their accounts safe". (February 11, 2020)
  6. "A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secureand that was before classes moved almost entirely online". (July 1, 2020)
  7. "In the first two weeks of May, they've hit the dark web, hawking 200 million stolen records from over a dozen companies". (May 21, 2020)
  8. "The campaigns primarily targeted countries outside the US. But the same mechanisms could be used in hack and leak operations like those that roiled the 2016 campaign". (September 25, 2020)
  9. "The new Manage Activity feature will let you archive and bulk delete posts for the first time". (June 2, 2020)
  10. "A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pagesincluding celebrities and politiciansfor several hours". (January 11, 2020)
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