Η Google revealed on Wednesday that it spent 2.9 millions dollars in 2017 as part of its rewarding bug bounty program researchers security for vulnerabilities. Since launching the program in November 2010, Google has said it has paid nearly $ 12 million to various security researchers.
2017, Google's 2017 bug bounty rewarded a total of 274 researchers and its largest 112.500 dollar amount of money, went to a security researcher to report a exploit chain that could be used to violate Pixel mobile devices.
The vulnerable points Google and Android managed to get $1,1 million each for 2017, with the rest of the money going to Chrome vulnerabilities, according to the company's blog post.
Google has also highlighted two other major vulnerabilities that 2017 has discovered:
Researcher "gzobqq" managed to get $ 100.000 for a chain of five errors that allowed remote code execution in Chrome OS, and
Alex Birsan discovered that anyone could have accessed internal Google Issue data Tracker and managed to earn $ 15.600.
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