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Google To Pay Freelancers To Identify Serious Chrome Bugs

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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Researchers have revealed that Google’s highly ambitious operating system, Chrome has loopholes that can be violated to take over the system easily.According to tech website Venture Beat, two security experts, Matt Johanson...


Chrome 12 Fixes 15 Vulnerabilities, Allows You To Delete LSOs

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Google has upgraded its Chrome web browser to version 12, patching 15 vulnerabilities in the process.The Chrome 12 web browser also heralds the death of Google’s Gear Box project which offered offline web app...


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