Google To Pay Freelancers To Identify Serious Chrome Bugs
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Google Inc. has announced that the company will start paying external researchers who are successful in finding and reporting security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser and its underlying open source code. The company announced on its Chromium project blog, that in order to weed out vulnerabilities from the open source offering, the search engine giant will offer monetary rewards to those who help Chrome to ‘stay on top of the latest browser security...
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