Facebook spend a million dollars in awards of unsuspecting experts

Announced social networking "Facebook" on Friday that it has spent more than one million U.S. dollars to about 329 security expert, as part of the awards program detected gaps which was launched two years ago.

These experts spreads innocent people, according to the company, in more than 51 different countries, Americans of them got to 20% of the total awards made during the program.

This has got all of the United States of America, India, and the United Kingdom, Turkey and Germany on top of the first five terms of acquired security experts who belong to these countries to the largest proportion of awards, but all nations fastest growing in this area, the list included ten countries First, both of the United States of America, India, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Germany, Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, and Sweden.

And the program, said "Facebook" It was an unexpected success, after the company hired two full-time experts within its security team.

For his part, said Colin Greeny, a security engineer working in the company in a statement, that this early step is really encouraging, because it may be for such a significant impact on the software's ability "Facebook" to stay safe.

He Greeny, it is not important how much you his disposal company to invest on security aspects, although they acted a lot, stressing that "Facebook" will not be able to include all intelligent people in this area to its security, but in return, will resort Per means make its complex and elusive breakthrough.

The awards program allows the "Facebook" of the company harnessing the talented people of all backgrounds, and all nations, Greeny said.

It is important to note that "Facebook" the end of the month of June last year to grant a security researcher Britain financial equivalent of 20,000U.S. $  to meet his reporting loophole that allows breach of user accounts via text message.

The company also announced on Thursday in order to enhance security capabilities for the delivery of and access to safe surfing the Internet protocol HTTPS for all users.