The Bounty Hunters Protecting Your Slack Account
Well-meaning hackers are identifying security flaws—and making bank.
One of the best ways to ward off hackers is to ask for their help. That, and promise to pay them for it.
That’s the thinking behind the bug bounty program at Slack, the popular group-chat platform, which offers a pay-out to people who find and report legitimate security flaws that could be exploited by hackers.
Frans Rosén, a researcher at the how he identified a flaw that would have allowed him to steal an individual Slack user’s private token—thus enabling him to log-in as that person.
