Google has always done this, put a challenged ask people to break their security systems and get paid huge money. Once again they are seen doing it as the tech giant has announced to pay 1 million USD as a top award to the security researchers that can find anything new or unique bug in its Pixel series of smartphones, which seemed to have compromised the users’ data.
Moreover the company has also announced an additional 50 percent bonus for any security researcher who end up playing over the “specific developer preview versions of the smartphone OS Android”. This means you end up getting a whopping prize of $1.5 million. The company’s Google Bug Bounty program that would reward the top reward to anyone who can easily break the Google’s Titan M “secure element.” This is very much similar to Apple’s “iPhone Secure Elementa, “Titan M” which remains a special security chip that is meant to automatically scans the hackers who are trying to load any malware while the Android-based phone is turned on.
The new reward category at Google is now looking for a complete chain remote code execution, which tend to exploit with persistence that hamper the Titan M secure element on Pixel devices.” The Tech giant intend to reward extra for a complete chain, which demonstrates arbitrary the code execution, along with issues like data exfiltration, or a lock screen bypass. When it comes to first introducing the bug bounty program by Google for Android, they had announced the biggest bug bounty reward of not less than $38,000.
Now, the researchers along with the security track record well versed with the high-end quality systems over the platform that remain eligible to apply and the winners could end up getting the payout of $1 million. Similar was the story at Apple’s end when the tech company launched its bug bounty program around three years before at the popular event Black Hat conference. The company is now planning to extend its use to cover Apple Watch, macOS, and Apple TV to name a few. The Software giant Microsoft also had a similar announcement with Azure Security Lab, which intended to offer experts a sandbox-like safe environment for testing the Cloud security services in a much better way. However, now we hear that the company also multiplied the top Azure bug bounty reward in a better way for the for researchers reaching to $40,000.