Google revealed Wednesday that it spent $2.9 million in 2017 as part of its bug program bounty που επιβραβεύει ερευνητές security to find vulnerabilities. Since the program began in November 2010, Google said it has paid out 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 vulnerabilities της Google και του Android κατάφεραν να πάρουν από 1,1 εκατομμύρια δολάρια το καθένα για το 2017, ενώ τα υπόλοιπα χρήματα πήγαν σε ευπάθειες του Chrome, σύμφωνα με την δημοσίευση της εταιρείας στο blog της.
Google highlighted still others two major vulnerabilities discovered in 2017:
Researcher “gzobqq” managed to obtain $100.000 for a chain of bugs in five elements that allowed remote execution code on Chrome OS, and
Alex Birsan discovered that anyone could have accessed internal Google Issue Tracker data and managed to earn 15.600 dollars.
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