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.Original article
Author: Lily Hay Newman

Lily Hay Newman has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
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  2. "Plus: Fox News gets sued for its election coverage (again), a record ransomware attack, and more of the weeks top security news". (March 27, 2021)
  3. "The companys investigation into a Chinese espionage campaign took researchers beyond Facebooks own platforms". (March 24, 2021)
  4. "In an interview with WIRED, Facebook's chief privacy officers argue that the company has turned a corner. Again". (October 22, 2020)
  5. "A bad code update allowed anyone to easily reveal which accounts posted to Facebook Pagesincluding celebrities and politiciansfor several hours". (January 11, 2020)
  6. "The sweeping campaign took advantage of the collaborative spirit among researchers, with an unknown number of victims". (January 27, 2021)
  7. "A class action lawsuit. Rampant zoombombing. And as of today, two new zero-day vulnerabilities". (April 1, 2020)
  8. "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)
  9. "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)
  10. "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)
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