Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty

Trailrunner7 writes "Google has released version 8.0.552.237 of its Chrome browser, which includes fixes for 16 security vulnerabilities. The company also paid out more than $14,000 in bug bounties for the flaws fixed in this release, including the first maximum reward of $3133.7. The new version of Google Chrome has fixes for 13 high-priority bugs, but the most serious vulnerability the company repaired in the browser is a critical flaw resulting from a stale pointer in the speech handling component of Chrome. That flaw, along with four others, was discovered by researcher Sergey Glazunov, who earned a total of more than $7,000 in rewards for the bugs he reported to Google."

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New business model:

[Fluffeh]

1) Convince Microsoft to adopt similar bug strategy.
2) Start using software as it was designed to be used...
3) PROFIT!!

Yes, that's right. No step 4.

*sips coffee*