At the
Defcon hacker conference this week in Las Vegas, Facebook is not only recruiting new security experts, but is also spreading the word about bountines it's issuing — on its own bugs. "The internet is hostile, you have to assume that people are trying to break in," Facebook Security team member Fred Wolens told
The Verge. Facebook has offered rewards to hackers before, and has even hired quite a few
high-profile hackers, but never this formally.
