Google has paid out nearly $2M in bounties to security researchers who have disclosed bugs in Chromium. To celebrate, the search giant is boosting their reward scheme, offering even more money for the discovery of future bugs. Google says they will also increase rewards for bugs that present a larger threat to user safety, as well as increase the rewards to researchers who provide analysis of exploitability and severity. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, released a paper that examined bug bounty programs [PDF], concluding that they could provide tremendous value.”]
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