Google paid over $2 million to security researchers last year

29 January, 2016
Google has released some interesting statistics related to its Vulnerability Reward Program for the year 2015. The company revealed that it paid more than $2 million to security researchers as part of the program last year.

Sort by:

  • W
  • Whuzzup
  • 9LB
  • 31 Jan 2016

Wish Apple would put out something like this. Anyone knows if that 1mil was ever won by anyone for finding any backdoors to Apple's system that was being provided by some other company??

    • D
    • AnonD-442781
    • pJm
    • 30 Jan 2016

    Trooper, 29 Jan 2016Blame that on the fact that Android is sitting on top of a ... moreEvery heard of AOT?

      • ?
      • Anonymous
      • 3aK
      • 29 Jan 2016

      Anonymous, 29 Jan 2016Instead spending money on security you should get rid of al... moreYes because removing bloatware is far more important than security... :/

        • D
        • AnonD-400081
        • tUe
        • 29 Jan 2016

        Mark, 29 Jan 2016Very small amount of money for such company as Google.If you catch roughly 800 rewards(750+ so just catching an upper limit) amounted to $2m..
        That would be roughly $2500 per reward, which is quite decent. Agreed that 2mil is quite negligible for Google.. But from a reward point of view, its quite high..

          • T
          • Trooper
          • mXt
          • 29 Jan 2016

          Anonymous, 29 Jan 2016Instead spending money on security you should get rid of al... moreBlame that on the fact that Android is sitting on top of a slow, buggy, resource hog of a JVM. Removing the need for that will improve its performance considerably.

            • ?
            • Anonymous
            • pXf
            • 29 Jan 2016

            Instead spending money on security you should get rid of all bloatware in the android OS. You should streamline the code, remove unnecessary features and software technologies and make it simple and fast. Make new different simple UI. As the current android is power hungry, resource hungry and big security hole.

              • s
              • sr777
              • X}t
              • 29 Jan 2016

              Encouragement to find faults, rewarding the researcher, fixing the fault.

              Good strategy

                • M
                • Mark
                • mb3
                • 29 Jan 2016

                Very small amount of money for such company as Google.

                  1 of 1