Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @04:13AM from the enlightened-self-interest dept.

jrepin writes "Google is offering rewards as high as $3,133.70 for software updates that improve the security of OpenSSL, OpenSSH, BIND, and several other open-source packages that are critical to the stability of the Internet. The program announced Wednesday expands on Google's current bug-bounty program, which pays from $500 to $3,133.70 to people who privately report bugs found in the company's software and Web properties." Google isn't the only company that sees the value in rewarding those who find security problems: Microsoft just paid British hacker James Forshaw $100,000 for finding a serious security flaw in Windows 8.1.

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Re:No. by oodaloop · 2013-10-10 04:41 · Score: 4, Informative

Okay Google, that's just not nice.
Google paying people for finding bugs in software that Google didn't produce isn't nice? Who else does that?

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