[kictanet] Facebook Security Breach

Sat Sep 29 18:23:56 EAT 2018

Hi!
I don’t think the issue is the rigor of FB tech or security teams, so I appreciate the questions but I can say that we are fortunate, given the profile of the company, to be able to hire many of the best engineers and security teams. We are always, however, eager to learn and looking for others to test our vulnerabilities, so if you would like to assist us with your expertise, here’s information about our white hat program. Please do review-we’d be grateful for your technical insights, so get involved!

https://m.facebook.com/whitehat

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-bug-bounty-third-party-apps/

Ebele Okobi | Public Policy Director, Africa

On Sep 29, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Harry Delano <harry26001 at gmail.com<mailto:harry26001 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hey Ebele,

I suppose I simply followed your cue, specifically here==>" |We continue to investigate and learn more, but please do let me know any specific questions|" prior to fully interacting with the security page information updates. It's got some of the info I needed to know.

But I have a couple of questions below, feel free to escalate as you had suggested. We are all learning/helping each other get better as a tech community;

- How much rigorous source code security vulnerability tests, was the 'upload video' feature that supposedly triggered "user access tokens" stolen by "3rd" parties as indicated by Pedro in you security update, subjected to before it went live..?
- Beyond the routine in-house system analysis/audits/testing that probably missed this vulnerability, was this feature subjected to Bug bounty hunting ( External audit resources)...?   Was it given a "clean bill of health"..?

Thanks
Harry

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 1:12 PM Ebele Okobi <ebeleokobi at fb.com<mailto:ebeleokobi at fb.com>> wrote:
Hi!
Are you asking for a representation of the specific line or lines of code, of the multiple millions of lines of code that make up FB code base? If so, I don’t have that, and it’s not the kind of information any company has ever released after a breach. But do correct me if I’m wrong? I’m also not sure how helpful that would be, but grateful for insight there.

That said-Facebook knows that our platform is one of the most attractive platforms in the known world for virtually every bad actor in the world. So we have multiple teams constantly assessing vulnerabilities, running scenarios, doing everything possible to harden us as a target. And to the second question, the teams have to try to anticipate and foresee any and every possible risk.

Ebele Okobi | Public Policy Director, Africa

On Sep 29, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Harry Delano <harry26001 at gmail.com<mailto:harry26001 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hey Ebele,

What specific code that was breached had the vulnerability on the platform, and just how difficult was this breach to be foreseen and forestalled..?

Harry

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 10:36 Ebele Okobi via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
Hello, All-

Just making sure you have all seen this. We continue to investigate and learn more, but please do let me know any specific questions. I may not yet know the answers, but it would be very helpful for me to escalate.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/

Ebele Okobi | Public Policy Director, Africa

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