Chrome 126, Firefox 127 Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities

June 12, 2024 at 06:18AM Google and Mozilla released Chrome 126 and Firefox 127, respectively, with patches for high-severity memory safety vulnerabilities. Google awarded over $160,000 in bug bounty rewards to external researchers. The highest reward of $100,115 was for CVE-2024-5839, related to a medium-severity inappropriate Memory Allocator implementation. Firefox’s update addresses 15 vulnerabilities, including … Read more

Google paid $10 million in bug bounty rewards last year

March 12, 2024 at 12:52PM Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and reporting security flaws in its products, a decrease from 2022’s $12 million. The highest reward for a vulnerability report was $113,337, totaling $59 million since 2010. Increased rewards were given for Android and Chrome vulnerabilities. … Read more