Facebook has awarded a sum of $15,000 (roughly Rs. 1,010,000) to an India-born security researcher. Anand Prakash received the bug bounty from Facebook after disclosing a vulnerability in the social juggernaut’s website that enabled an…
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US to Blame Iran for 2013 Cyber-Attack on New York Dam: Report
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