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Google now offering rewards to users who report bugs, flaws

article published on 3 November, 2010

Following in the footsteps of other companies such as Mozilla, Google has announced today that it is offering a reward for users that find and report security flaws in their software and Websites. Says the company: "We are announcing an experimental new vulnerability reward program that applies to Google Web properties. As well as enabling us to thank regular contributors in a new way, ... [ read the full article ]

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ROMaster2
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 00:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You'll never see Microsoft do this.
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KillerBug
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 00:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Amazing...they completely ignore bug reports relating everything else, yet they pay money to people that find security related bugs.
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biglo30
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 01:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wonder why android is exempted, I guess its because its open source?
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 03:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, because they never call android bugs critical, no matter how bad they are.
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Mysttic
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I don't know of many pen-testers out of work that would do this, unless it was for charity or there were teenagers/college students. Either way good for google and those wishing to get their name out. MS used to do something like this 10 years ago but they kept it underground and it was when Gates was in charge. You'll never see Balmer give a shred of $, edited by ddp guy hates the sound of charity too.
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ChiknLitl
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The top reward is $3133.7 ---Chikn
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Grammarpatrol
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Originally posted by Mysttic:
 I don't know of many pen-testers out of work that would do this, unless it was for charity or there were teenagers/college students. Either way good for google and those wishing to get their name out. MS used to do something like this 10 years ago but they kept it underground and it was when Gates was in charge. You'll never see Balmer give a shred of $, edited by ddp guy hates the sound of charity too.
It was a poke at the incorrect grammar used in the headline.
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