Announcing New Abuse Research Grants Program (Google Online Security Blog)
Posted by Anna Hupa, Marc Henson, and Martin Straka, Google VRP Team Our Abuse Bug Bounty program has proved tremendously successful in the past three years since its introduction – thanks to our incredibly engaged community of researchers. Their contributions resulted in +1,000 valid bugs, helping us raise the bar in combating product abuse.As a result of this continued success, today we are announcing a new experimental Abuse Research Grants Program in addition to the already existing Vulnerability Research Grants. Similar to other Research Grant Programs, these grants are up-front awards that our top researchers will receive before they ever submit a bug.Last year, we increased our rewards to recognize the important work of our community. The growth of this program would not have been possible without partners like David (@xdavidhu),…