Google raises prices for bugs in their products

Google raises prices for bugs in their products

Google plans to significantly increase the limit of financial payments independent IT professionals who report on vulnerabilities in the software company. Also, Google announced today that the company has already paid for the data on the bugs of the order of $ 2 million. The company said that in some isolated and critically dangerous bugs Google paid tens of thousands of dollars, but such cases were rare, whereas most of programmers who reported bugs, bugs got for the amount of several hundred dollars. Now, the company is raising the bar of payments and promises that most of the compensation will be measured in thousands of dollars, while for the most dangerous bugs company will pay up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The company has not provided specific plug rewards for certain bugs, but promised that "significantly" raise the bar payments. 's blog software company representatives Google Vulnerability Programm say that the new initiative of the company - is the desire to comply with the "leading standards" to work with third-party developers. In addition, Google announced that it intends to reduce the response time to the identified vulnerabilities to the users themselves have the opportunity to obtain a more secure products. Recall that Google Bug Bounty program funding data about the vulnerabilities, launched in 2010.

During this time, most of the bugs that have been paid Google, concerned the Chrome browser and operating system Chrome OS. Other IT companies such as Microsoft or Facebook, also have their funding information about bugs. Examples of the latter launched a funding program for bugs in 2011 and since then has paid the social network of more than 1 million 329 independent programmers.