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Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties

Posted by timothy on from the working-in-the-background dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome. Google Chrome 6 includes patches for 14 total security vulnerabilities, including six high-priority flaws, and the company paid out a total of $4,337 in bug bounties to researchers who reported the vulnerabilities. A number of the flaws that didn't qualify for bug bounties were discovered by members of Google's internal security team." (Read on for more, below.) Also on the Chrome front, morsch writes "Chrome 7 for Linux is planned to tie in with the Gnome Keyring and the KDE Wallet to securely store saved browser passwords. Users of the stable version of Google's Webkit-based browser might be surprised to find out that, so far, passwords are stored on the hard disk as clear text. On Windows, Chrome has always used a platform-specific crypto API call for encrypted storage. The corresponding Linux function was never implemented — until now. Unstable versions of Chrome 7 still disable the feature by default; it can be enabled using a parameter."

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  1. Wheel of Bug Chasers! by LostCluster · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not quite sure America has its value system on straight. Hit the right spaces on the Wheel of Fortune and solve two or more puzzles, and you could win $1,000,000. Answer 15 multiple choice trivia questions in the hotseat in front of Regis Philbin, wait, what it's now 12 questions in the new season walking around the stage with Meridith Vieira? Still $1,000,000. Ken Jennings is extremely smart, but he took Jeopardy! for multiple millions. Discover a flaw in Internet Explorer or Windows or just go after somebody else's research and count on the unpatched systems being still online... and you just got the ability to run a botnet if you're evil. Untold riches there. Discover flaws in Google's Chrome... and you get paid. But the entire panel of winners gets less than $5,000 for their trouble... Something's not right in the equity here.

  2. AEET! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just seeing how much money they paid out makes me scream...

    AEET! AEET! AEET!

  3. Marusya by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When integrating your plugin with someone else's application and you run into a bug in the parent app, you have 2 options
    http://marusya-serial.ru/