Not so long ago, Facebook boasted an unprecedented step. The company paid hackers some $1 million for finding bugs and vulnerabilities. Google also decided to reveal the stats of its own program ained at finding and fixing bugs.
According to the stats, with 2 programs - Chromium Vulnerability Reward and Google Web Vulnerability Reward – the company found and fixed some 2000 bugs and vulnerabilities. The team of hackers that searched for those vulnerabilities is set to receive $2 million. It turns out that every bug or vulnerability found in Google’s browser and websites costs around $1000.
The chart below, courtesy of Masterforex-V Academy, reflects the current state of affairs in the market of GOOG:
