Loophole "Twitter" gives an engineer Saudis 20 thousand dollars

The famous social networking site "Twitter" rewarded a Saudi citizen, and gave him 20 thousand dollars, and that after his success in the discovery of a security vulnerability in the programming of the site.

He was architect Ammar Mahmoud al-Ahmad, was able to detect a vulnerability in the site "Twitter", during his attempts to design a program complies with the site, then informed the management of "Twitter", as this gap can be exploited by some developers to use software Twitter illegally, Faqamt site management reform of the gap, and rewarded Al-Ahmad to 20 thousand dollars, according to local newspaper "Okaz".

It is noteworthy that the engineer-Ahmad, holds a bachelor's degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, specialty electrical engineering, and worked as an engineer in Saudi Aramco, it also fluent in software design and applications of smart devices.