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Google Increases Bug Bounty Payouts

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Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 2, 2014

Google first started paying security researchers for finding bugs in the Chrome browser back in 2010, with the debut of the Chrome 4.0.249.89 release. At that time, Google’s top initial reward was $1,337.

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