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We’re much more used to security flaws now after years of being conditioned to hearing about them from various sources. Some software makers handle vulnerabilities better than others of course, but remember, software is inherently complicated and it’s being written by flawed humans so mistakes are inevitable.
The figure, up from the $6.5 million the company paid in 2019, is the company's largest prize pool paid to security researchers to date. Most of last year's bug prizes were awarded in the Chrome VRP (Vulnerabilities Rewards Program), which handed out more than $2.1 million to security researchers for 300 bugs identified in Google's flagship browser. Another major VRP was the company's Android programs. Google said it gave out $1.74 million for bugs discovered in the Android OS code and another $270,000 in the Google Play VRP for bugs found in the Play Store's most popular and widely used Andr...
minute read Share this article: Major browsers get an update to fix separate bugs that both allow for remote attacks, which could potentially allow hackers to takeover targeted devices. Makers of the Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers are urging users to patch critical vulnerabilities that if exploited allow hackers to hijack systems running the software. The Mozilla Firefox vulnerability (CVE-2020-16044) is separate from a bug reported in Google’s browser engine Chromium, which is used in the Google Chrome browser and Microsoft’s latest version of its Edge browser. Critical...