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Google Boosts Bug Bounty

in News on July 21, 2010 at 11:03 am PT

Not to be outdone by the Open Sourcerers at Mozilla, Google has raised the bounty it offers to security researchers who report holes in its Chrome browser. The top reward for a single bug is now $3,133.70–$1796 more than it used to be and $133.70 more than the $3,000 fee Mozilla began paying for security bugs last week. Why the odd number? It translates to “elite” in “leet” talk (if you ignore the trailing zero).

Hey, Big Spender: The Goodbye Memo From Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash

in News on February 2, 2009 at 7:02 pm PT

It looks like Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is going to have to up the ante to keep BoomTown from getting its mitts on the company’s internal memos. Earlier today, this column broke the news that Yahoo PR head Jill Nash was headed out the door and mentioned that Bartz had been dangling cash rewards to Yahoos to turn in other employees who leaked information. Good gracious–it’s like “Oz,” except for the free lattes! Well, she has to do better than the $1,000 bounty she mentioned in a recent email, since I got sent the memo sent out by Nash to Yahoo staff about her departure in its entirety pretty quickly.