Chrome 17 Bug Finders Get Pay Raise

“Google is no stranger to paying security researchers for
identifying security flaws, though until now the company has never
paid out more than $3,337 per issue to any single security
researcher.

With the Chrome stable 17.0.963.65 browser which was released
late Sunday, Google has created a new class of security awards that
changes the pay scale. For the Chrome 17.0.963.65, Google decided
to single out three researchers and their respective contributions
with a special award of $10,000 each. Those three researchers
combined to discover and report 12 out of 13 High impact flaws
fixed in the Chrome 17.0.963.65 update.

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