Google offers a reward for Chrome vulnerabilities: up to $1337 per location

Article Title: Google offers a reward to search for Chrome vulnerabilities: up to $1337 per location. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Some basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open-source systems were reported on the morning of July 15, January 31, Beijing time. according to foreign media reports today, Google is offering cash rewards to network security research companies, ask them to find the web browser vulnerability of Chrome.

Google said that if developers can find and directly report security vulnerabilities in Chrome Web browsers, they will be rewarded with cash ranging from $500 to $1337. The $1337 prize is clearly derived from the 1337 language used by hackers.

This reward mechanism will apply to security vulnerabilities in Chromium open-source projects and bundled components such as Chrome browser and Google Gears.

Chris Evans, a member of Google Chrome's security team, wrote on the Chromium official blog that Google is considering inviting more third-party research companies to participate in the project.

"Some of the most interesting security vulnerabilities we have fixed are reported to the Chromium project by external research companies," Ivins wrote in his blog. Thanks to the collaboration between these people and others, Chromium's security capabilities are becoming stronger and our users are becoming more secure ."

Paying bonuses to the outside world to find security vulnerabilities has become a common strategy for software developers and network security companies. These companies hope to provide cash rewards so that developers can report security vulnerabilities to vulnerability fixes to prevent them from selling vulnerability information to malware developers.