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by Pierluigi Paganini on September 16th, 2014
An Egyptian security researcher has discovered a critical flaw in Twitter platform which allows an attacker to delete credit cards from Any Twitter Account.
The Egyptian Security Researcher, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela has discovered a critical vulnerability in Twitter’s advertising service that allowed an attacker to delete credit cards from any Twitter account. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela is a popular bug hunter that has already received many rewards for the discovery of flaws in software of IT giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple.Early September Twitter launched a bug bounty program, paying paying monetary rewards to security experts who find and report vulnerabilities in its software.
“We’re introducing a bug bounty program to thank researchers for responsibly-disclosed issues,” Twitter said through its Twitter account.
As explained in Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela’s
blog post the researcher discovered two distinct vulnerabilities in ads.twitter.com having the “
same effect and impact.”
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