Google says "me too," offering $3,000+ bounty for Chrome bugs

By on Jul 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM
Security July 21, 2010

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Several days ago, Mozilla announced that it would pay developers and hackers $3,000 for every reproducible, critical security flaw found in its FireFox web browser. Yesterday, Google has announced that it will pay $3,133.70 for critical security bugs found in its Chrome web browser. Bravo to Google for their ability to sneak 31337 (eleet) into their bug bounty payout. Google’s pay-per-bug program looks like this:

  1. The maximum reward for a single bug has been increased to $3,133.7. We will most likely use this amount for SecSeverity-Critical bugs in Chromium. The increased reward reflects the fact that the sandbox makes it harder to find bugs of this severity.
  2. Whilst the base reward for less serious bugs remains at $500, the panel will consider rewarding more for high-quality bug reports. Factors indicating a high-quality bug report might include a careful test case reduction, an accurate analysis of root cause, or productive discussion towards resolution.

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  • Teslanaut

    Google is doin it for the Lulz.

  • Mohammad

    First!

  • Louis

    Yeah, that’s 1337, not 7331. Andrew Munchbach just lost a point.

    • NuShrike

      And an few more points for missing out what George pointed out, eleete == elite.

      In fact, the urban dictionary says 7331 means UNCOOL, non-leet. Having poor computer skills, person who is uncool or non-leet.

      Good joke.

    • Andrew Munchbach

      Yes, Andrew Munchbach is clearly not 7331, and you can forget about 31337.

      Updated the article. Thanks!

  • George

    31337 = eleet = elite. GET IT RIGHT.

  • jawman

    Lol, I love that they beat FireFox’s reward by $1337.

  • GeniusBoy

    Probably better than paying Jason Buford for some bullshit story…

  • rmcgoff

    Say what you want about Google, they have fantastic senses of humor.

  • http://splashbanana.wordpress.com Shinx2ran

    converted to my country’s IDR, ‎$3,1337 = Rp 28.673.355 , if you can fine one critical flaw bug, on google chrome.. just one, and if you can find more, that’ll be just good

    wheewww

  • Unknown

    Microsoft would go broke if they did this.

  • Neo

    The whole thing is a bug.

  • Mo Chedda

    pretty cool! Google is the best at search engine, browser, and advertising. But they messed up bad when they made android OS

    • idrinkdeodorant

      No. Competition is better for everyone. Android is a very important part of the market and all signs indicate it’s here to stay. Get used to it.

      iPhone user here.

  • pedro

    Who says “whilst”

    lol

  • UberSapian

    @rmcgoff
    Yeah but the “aww snap” error thing really puts me off. I like Chrome… its a great browser…but I can really do without the Ebonics.

    • rmcgoff

      Oh, lighten up. “Aww snap” has been adopted by all cultures, and I would hardly consider that ebonics. It’s slang, yes. Ebonics, no.

  • http://www.webdesignseoglobal.com/ Chethan Kashyap

    This is a strategic move by Google. As, Mozilla Firefox is the second largest web browser by usage statistics after Internet Explorer, Google does not want to abandon the competition here itself. Google is all geared up to take its Chrome browser to No.1 position. So, it has retaliated with such an offer, which provides more money than offered by Mozilla for detecting a bug in its browser.

  • idrinkdeodorant

    Anyone got that chromium logo with a transparent background in png? Would look great on my dock

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