Google boosts bounties for open source flaws found via fuzzing

Google sweetened the potential pot to $30,000 for bug hunters in its open source OSS-Fuzz code testing project. On Wednesday, Google increased bounties for fuzzing coverage projects (up to $5,000 per project), and added rewards for some FuzzBench integrations. For the latter, contributors can claim a prize up to $11,337 for …

[Michael Strorm]

$11,337?

I see what you, er, tried to do there.

Anyway, "lleet"? I suppose the extra "L" stands for "No-one thought our original $1337 offer was 'leet' enough so we had to split the difference between a stingy joke and a half-worthwhile bounty"? Also, 13375p34k hasn't been cool for the better part of twenty years; maybe this is an early-2000s revival already?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: $11,337?

It's the Welsh spelling!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fire staff, pay bounties at 1/4 the cost

don't mistake googs payouts for bugs as an act of kindness, it's actually the reverse. They Fired paid staff, and let researchers work for free until they 'score' a bug that counts.