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Google Broadens Bug Bounties To Include Web App Security

Posted by Soulskill on from the invitation-to-break-stuff dept.

n0-0p writes "Google just announced they will pay between $500 and $3133.70 for security bugs found in any of their web services, such as Search, YouTube, and Gmail. This appears to be an expansion of the program they already had in place for Chrome security bugs. 'We've seen a sustained increase in the number of high quality reports from researchers, and their combined efforts are contributing to a more secure Chromium browser for millions of users.' The rules and qualification details were posted today at the Google Online Security Blog."

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  1. Apparently by imamac · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apparently, the Chrome program of this worked well.

  2. Re:Does this imply.... by santax · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are raining on my parade. *stops pinging to google.com*

  3. BFD by thenextstevejobs · · Score: 3, Funny

    I will offer 20 times the bounty to anyone who finds similar exploits in my products.

    Oh, what's that, you can't find any?

    Security through obscurity wins again.

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  4. IE? by dudpixel · · Score: 2, Funny

    waiting for microsoft to start one of these for Internet Explorer or Windows. Then I can retire :)

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  5. Re:LOLWUT by icebike · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too old to pay much attention to kiddies I guess.

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