G o o g l e raises 5-fold reward for reporting bugs to $5,000 MUMBAI: Amid the gloom on the rupee front, here is good news for those web-addicts to make some quick bucks as search giant Google has decided to raise the reward amount it pays to those reporting bugs by five-fold, or up to USD 5,000. It can be recalled that Google has already paid over USD 2 million in rewards under its 'bug bounty programme' to users who report vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser and operating system. It can also be noted that Indians were the second biggest recipient by county of a similar anti-bug initiative by Facebook earlier this year. "We've now paid out in excess of USD 2 million across our security reward initiatives. This includes over USD1 million for the Chromium VRP/Pwnium rewards, and in excess of USD 1 million for the Google Web VRP rewards," Google said in a blogpost. A bug is an error or defect in software or hardware that ca...
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