Announcing New Patch Reward Program for Tsunami Security Scanner (Google Online Security Blog)
Posted by Guoli Ma, Sebastian Lekies & Claudio Criscione, Google Vulnerability Management TeamOne year ago, we published the Tsunami security scanner with the goal of detecting high severity, actively exploited vulnerabilities with high confidence. In the last several months, the Tsunami scanner team has been working closely with our vulnerability rewards program, Bug Hunters, to further improve Tsunami's security detection capabilities. Today, we are announcing a new experimental Patch Reward Program for the Tsunami project. Participants in the program will receive patch rewards for providing novel Tsunami detection plugins and web application fingerprints. We hope this program will allow us to quickly extend the detection capabilities of the scanner to better benefit our users and uncover more vulnerabilities in their network infrastructure. For this launch, we will accept two types…