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Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.

The Wiretap: Telegram Is Full Of AI-Generated And Real Child Abuse Photos–But Is That Enough To Arrest A CEO?It may come as something of a surprise to realize that the Google Chrome browser is 16 years old now. Just a couple of years behind is the Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program that pays cash bounties to security researchers so as to keep improving the security of the browser with billions of users.

A high-quality report with a clear demonstration of remote code execution through a functional exploit.A high-quality report demonstrating memory corruption in Chrome. A baseline report consisting of a stack trace and proof of concept to evidence a triggerable memory corruption in Chrome.Trump Vs. Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads Trump In Latest Post-DNC SurveysIn order to incentivize that deeper research into not only a vulnerability but also the consequences of it being exploited, Ressler confirmed that reward bounties have increased across all but the baseline category as can be seen in the table below.

Moderate impact, as you might expect, sits ion the middle for those vulnerabilities that require a moderate degree of exploit preconditions and give the attacker a middling degree of control. The highest impact category is for vulnerabilities with the easiest of exploit paths along with remote exploitability and both demonstrable and significant harm to users.It’s worth noting that one particular type of reward, that for a MiraclePtr bypass, has been more than doubled from $100,115 to $250,128. As explained in some technical detail in a, MiraclePtr is a technology to prevent exploitation of use-after-free bugs.

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