Google revealed Wednesday that it spent $2.9 million in 2017 as part of its bug program bounty που επιβραβεύει researchers security to find vulnerabilities. Since the program began in November 2010, Google said it has paid out nearly $12 million to various researchers better safetys.
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.
Google and Android vulnerabilities managed to take in $1,1 million each for 2017, with the rest of the money going to Chrome vulnerabilities, according to the publication companyon her blog.
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 acquired access on internal Google Issue Tracker data and managed to earn $15.600.
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