Google: Up to $ 20,000 vulnerabilities

The U.S. Internet giant Google has recently decided to pay the discoverers of vulnerabilities in the future more money. Up to 20,000 U.S. dollars will be spend on Google for it.

The reward system in connection with discovered vulnerabilities in Google’s products will be officially known as the Vulnerability Reward Program. Some time ago, the Internet giant announced that with the success of this service is very satisfactory. This was confirmed once again Adam and Michal My Zalewsk the Google Security Team and announced new regulations.

If Google wants to celebrate the success of the reward system and also underscore the importance of the company the subject of safety in the home-made products. Up to $ 20,000 will pay Google to the discovery of critical vulnerabilities, if this is possible to run on production systems from Google’s own code.

For SQL injection vulnerabilities or similar to Google’s in-house prepared to spend $ 10,000. Up to U.S. $ 3133.70 is available for XSS, XSRF or similar vulnerabilities in applications and services from Google.

Taken the information from Google, according to the U.S. Internet giant, the safety of users is very much at heart. For this reason we have decided to tend to spend more on detected vulnerabilities, if a greater safety risk to users. This is illustrated using an example. For a critical security hole in Google Wallet example, there is more money than a flaw in Google Art Project, basically because in the mentioned payment service are at greater risk for the user data.

Within a year, Google has paid in connection with the reward system more than 460,000 U.S. dollars to about 200 vulnerabilities discovered. In addition, more than 780 messages allegedly went on weaknesses in their own services into Google.

In similar programs are also the developers of Mozilla and the operator of the world’s largest social network Facebook for quite some time.

The hangouts of Google + and allow shared editing of documents in Google Docs

When we talked about the hangouts for quite some time, just after the presentation of Google +, we were quite a few that we missed a collaborative tool that would take advantage of videoconferencing. Well, it took but finally here shared editing of documents from Google Docs, which is now available for everyone.

There is an absolute novelty, because Google Apps accounts already had this feature on a trial under his plan Hangout with extras . The main change is that now all users, including free Gmail account, you can use with your contacts. No doubt great news and an interesting development that have no other social networks, so bring some extra points to Google + utility.

Google TV: Google takes YouTube to TV and mobile phones

With Google TV to the Internet and television together. On the Developer Conference Google I / O in San Francisco Google TV along with Intel, Sony, and Logitech has been presented. The user should see more content on their TVs and find them easily.

On the Developer Conference Google I / O in San Francisco Google TV was introduced. Built into the TV or set-top box to connect Google TV is the medium of television to the Internet. Partner Group of the Internet in this project are Sony, Intel and Logitech. The new Intel processor CE4100 offers a system-on-a-chip solution for multimedia content on the TV screen. The operating system that comes from Google Android OS for mobile devices, originally developed for use with which the use of Apps on the TV is possible. As web browser Google Chrome is used.

Source: google.com

This is not just about Internet content like YouTube videos to bring on the big screen in the living room where they can watch TV from the comfort of your couch. Elsewhere stored content, such as on network drives may also be brought to the TV through Google TV. Very important is the search function, for even a TV service with hundreds of digital TV channels for most viewers too confusing to navigate well. The myriad content from the Internet make it even more difficult to find what you want to view. Read the rest of this entry »