Facebook Bug Submissions Up 16% in 2014
A total of 17,011 bugs were submitted to Facebook in 2014, up 16 percent from the previous year, and 61 of those bugs were classified as high-severity, up 49 percent from 2013.
A total of 17,011 bugs were submitted to Facebook in 2014, up 16 percent from the previous year, and 61 of those bugs were classified as high-severity, up 49 percent from 2013.
Facebook security engineer Collin Greene shared those figures in a note on the Facebook Bug Bounty page, adding that $1.3 million was paid out to 321 researchers from around the world last year, with an average reward of $1,788.
According to Greene, the Facebook Bug Bounty program has distributed a total of more than $3 million since its establishment in 2011.
Greene wrote that rewards were issued in 65 countries in 2014, up 12 percent from 2013, and reports came from 123 countries.
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