{"id":213762,"date":"2017-06-02T13:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=213762"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:21:39","slug":"hack-android-and-get-r2-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/213762-hack-android-and-get-r2-6-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Hack Android and get R2.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2017\/06\/2017-android-security-rewards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>improvements<\/strong><\/a> to its Android Security Rewards programme, with increased rewards for successful attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because every Android release includes more security protections and no researcher has claimed the top reward for an exploit chain in two years, we\u2019re excited to increase our top-line payouts for these exploits,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewards for a remote exploit chain or exploit leading to TrustZone or Verified Boot compromise increase from $50,000 to $200,000.<\/li>\n<li>Rewards for a remote kernel exploit increase from $30,000 to $150,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to rewarding for vulnerabilities, we continue to work with the broad and diverse Android ecosystem to protect users from issues reported through our programme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/213226-microsoft-office-bug-opens-a-cmd-window-then-quickly-closes-it.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft Office bug opens a CMD window then quickly closes it<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced improvements to its Android Security Rewards programme, with increased rewards for successful attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,167],"class_list":["post-213762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213766,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213762\/revisions\/213766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}