That critical “ImageTragick” bug Ars warned you about? It cost Facebook $40k

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinJan 18, 2017, 7:04 pm175 ptsTrending
Last May, Ars reported that a critical vulnerability in a widely used image-processing application left a huge number of websites open to attacks that allowed hackers to execute malicious code on the underlying servers. More than five months later, Facebook paid a $40,000 bounty after discovering it was among…

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