Vine’s source code was made public for 5 minutes

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by Sindy Cator on July 25, 2016 at 9:46 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, bug, hacker, Insider, vine, white hat

Thanks to some digging around in the inner workings of Twitter’s video website Vine, white hat hacker avicoder was able to download the entire source code to the popular service. As he was looking at various ways to breach the website’s security, he found an interesting domain that could recreate a local version of Vine. There are a lot of things hidden in a website’s source code that makes it vulnerable to attacks. Luckily, avicoder has helped fix multiple Twitter bugs in the past and wasn’t looking to do any harm. This is what happened when he reported the bug through Twitter’s HackerOne bounty program:…