Google Ups the Bug Bounty Ante to $3133.7
The sudden change in the price paid for bugs by both Mozilla and Google can be seen as a consequence of the stance taken by some researchers who have said that they're no longer interested in doing the software vendors' security work for them without any monetary reward. Prominent researchers such as Alex Sotirov, Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi have said in the last year that vendors shouldn't expect researchers to continue finding serious bugs in their software and then wading through what can be a long process from reporting to patching to disclosure.
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