Instagram Bug (Bounty)

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The following article was written by viaForensics researcher Sebastián Guerrero (@0xroot) about his discovery and reporting of a security vulnerability in Instagram, and the subsequent patching of the vulnerability by the Facebook security team.

How I hacked your Instagram account

Instagram is an online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook or Twitter.
The purpose of this article is to show a vulnerability recently found in the “Photo Map” service used by the application.
This vulnerability was quickly fixed by the Facebook security team after it was discovered and reported. The associated timeline was as follows:

• May 7th, 2013 – Vulnerability discovered by Sebastián Guerrero
• May 7th, 2013 – First contact with Facebook
• May 8th, 2013 – Open a ticket to research the issue
• May 8th, 2013 – Vulnerability fixed and update deployed into the market
• May 28th, 2013 – Confirmation received from Facebook to publish this write-up

In appreciation, they put my name in their ‘Hall of Fame‘ and delivered a monetary reward for my research.


https://viaforensics.com/mobile-security/hacked-your-instagram-account.html

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Microsoft are offering a reward for cracking 8.1.

I'd love to have the knowhow to tear that bitch up.