Google is (indirectly) buying security vulnerabilities from the security research community. Under guise of a Native Client Security Contest, the search engine firm is offering big cash prizes to hackers who find bugs and other security flaws in the open-source research technology for running x86 native code in Web applications. The first prize is $8,192, the second prize $4,096, the third prize $2,048, the fourth prize $1,024 and the fifth prize is.
Source: https://threatpost.com/google-wants-buy-native-client-security-flaws-022509/72470/