Google reveals just how much it spent paying rewards to hackers in 2019 AFP via Getty ImagesPaying hackers is no bad thing. Or, in the case of Google, the Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) that were launched in 2010. The maximum baseline Chrome VRP reward has tripled to $15,000 (£11,500) but the really big money is to be found within the Android Security VRP. In 2019 alone, some $6.5 million (£5 million) in rewards were paid; that's twice as much as has ever been rewarded in a single year before. If you fancy a slice of the Google rewards action while making the internet a safer place to be, you can learn more about the Google Vulnerability Reward Programs here.

Source: Forbes January 29, 2020 09:28 UTC