Facebook
on Wednesday awarded a $50,000 Internet Defense Prize to a pair of
German researchers with a seemingly viable approach to detecting
vulnerabilities in Web applications.
Johannes
Dahse and Thorsten Holz from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany won the
new cash award for a paper outlining how to find flaws hackers could
exploit, according to the California based social network.
The
committee behind the prize saw a “clear path” for using the money to
build the research into technology that could be implemented in the real
world. “We decided to focus on creating greater opportunities and
incentives for researchers to produce work that actually protects
people,” Facebook security engineering manager John Flynn said in a blog
post.
“Our
answer is the Internet Defense Prize, an award to recognize superior
quality research that combines a working prototype with significant
contributions to the security of the Internet — particularly in the
areas of protection and defense.”
Flynn
was a member of the award committee for the prize, which was announced
at a USENIX Security Symposium in Southern California.
“USENIX
is thrilled to collaborate with Facebook on this significant award,
which shines a light on the importance of securing the Internet by
identifying critical vulnerabilities and preventing their exploitation,”
association executive director Casey Henderson said in a released
statement.
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