Google raises 5-fold reward for reporting bugs to USD 5000 - Indian Express

PTI : Mumbai, Tue Aug 20 2013, 17:29 hrs Amid the gloom on the rupee front, here is good news for those web-addicts to make some quick bucks as search giant Google has decided to raise the reward amount it pays to those reporting bugs by five-fold, or up to USD 5,000. It can be recalled that Google has already paid over USD 2 million in rewards under its 'bug bounty programme' to users who report vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser and operating system. It can also be noted that Indians were the second biggest recipient by county of a similar anti-bug initiative by Facebook earlier this year. "We've now paid out in excess of USD 2 million across our security reward initiatives. This includes over USD1 million for the Chromium VRP/Pwnium rewards, and in excess of USD 1 million for the Google Web VRP rewards," Google said in a blogpost. A bug is an error or defect in software or hardware that causes a programme to malfunction. While bugs can cause software to crash or produce unexpected results, certain defects can be used to gain unauthorised access to systems. Recently, social networking site Facebook also said it paid over USD 1 million in the last two years to security researchers who report bugs on its website and India was second among recipients by country. Microsoft has also started a bug bounty programme in June, offering up to USD 100,000 for reporting exploitation techniques against protections built into the latest version of its Windows operating system. Google, in its post said, bugs previously rewarded at the USD 1,000 level will now be considered for reward at up to USD 5,000. "We will issue higher rewards for bugs (that) we believe present a more significant threat to user safety, and when the researcher provides an accurate analysis of exploitability and severity," it added. ... contd. ALSO READ LinkedIn to welcome school students in a move to attract young membership Amazon.com website goes down for US, Canadian users Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked Google looks to widen interest on the internet photo-sharing space in India Please read our terms of use before posting comments TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s). via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGvITT8kJCINa5aG-dfcQqQBoj_QQ&url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/google-raises-5fold-reward-for-reporting-bugs-to-usd-5000/1157634/

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