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Google Paying Up to $1,000 for Vulnerabilities in Some Third-Party Android Apps

posted by martyb on Sunday October 22 2017, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-going-to-write-me-a-minivan! dept.

takyon writes:

Find a bug in Tinder or Dropbox? You may be able to get paid by Google:

According to HackerOne, Google's new bug bounty program now incentivizes hackers to unearth software vulnerabilities in some of the more popular third-party apps on the Play Store. The new program will presumably result in more secure Android apps while also limiting the damage whenever a serious issue is discovered. While perhaps not a common occurrence, it's not all that unusual to see reports of malware infecting widely downloaded Android apps.

[...] Notably, the new bug bounty program, as it stands now, only applies to Google-developed Android apps and the following third-party apps: Alibaba, Dropbox, Duolingo, Headspace, Line, Mail.Ru, Snapchat, and Tinder. Down the line, though, the program may open up to include additional third-party apps.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 22 2017, @11:12PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 22 2017, @11:12PM (#586091) Homepage

    Exactly. Retards tried this decades ago, but most people who work for large corporations, despite what they say on the outside, hate them.

    Pure retardism all around.