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PayPal pays $10,000 to discoverer of massive security flaw (+video)

article published on 7 December, 2014

An Egyptian security researcher has scooped the top payout for security bugs from PayPal for discovering a massive security flaw that exposed the accounts of over 150 million users. Yasser Ali was able to get around PayPal's CSRF Prevention System and capture an authentication token that could be used to effect a customer's PayPal account. You could add, remove or confirm e-mail addresses, ... [ read the full article ]

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Dragon3000
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_ 		8. December 2014 @ 08:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
bloody hell! just shut the internet down for good already!
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evelyn.tam
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_ 		8. December 2014 @ 14:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi James, Evelyn here with PayPal. Any chance you can share your email address?
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hearme0
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_ 		8. December 2014 @ 14:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thank God for no-life losers that hack this crap morning, noon and night. To have honestly caught this, you'd have to eat, breathe, see, and think ones and zeros and likely don't have much of a life outside of the keyboard and mouse.

I am grateful though.
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alotanor
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_ 		9. December 2014 @ 14:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
they should've added another '0' onto that amount.
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