Facebook the leader of Internet social networking sites intends to be in the "Defcon" security conference this week in Las Vegas for two main reasons First, recruitment of new staff in the Department of Protection and Security of highly qualified personnel, and the second to pay bonuses to those who discover security flaws in the site so they can fix them.
It is assumed that the internet is has an enemy for Facebook, in the sense that all people are trying to hack the site, so they will benefit from this conference to look for gaps that may be critical.
This rewards was given to Facebook products only, but today it extends to include servers and infrastructure on which the site depends on also.
Facebook has been allocated total prizes valued at $ 400 thousand will be awarded to the hackers which will find significant gaps in the site, and will pay between $ 500 to 10 thousand dollars for each gap discovered.
One of protection team on the site said that they are working to close the gaps on a daily basis and fast, as each hole will be discovered will be immediately filled and the protection will take one hour to apply to all users.
More than 150 security researchers from 30 countries around the world will attend the conference and most of them are from the United States.
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