Google has paid security researchers almost $12 million for bug bounties, $2.9 million in 2017 alone

Google today announced it has paid out almost $12 million since launching its bug bounty program in November 2010. In the past year alone, the company paid 274 different security researchers $2.9 million, although the year before that it paid out over $3 million. Bug bounty programs are an excellent addition to existing internal security […]