back to article Qualcomm now offering US$15k for security bugs

Qualcomm's been bitten by the bounty bug, signing on with HackerOne to offer up to US$15,000 for vulnerabilities in modems and processors. The bounty covers Snapdragon 400, 615, 801, 805 808, 810, 820 and 821 processors, and its X5, X7, X12 and X16 LTE modems. A vulnerability in any one of these would reach a long way into …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Good for Qualcomm!!

    I'm glad they are taking this somewhat seriously. I'd prefer the bounty to be closer to $25K, given the ubiquity of Qualcomm's chips. However, $15K is reasonable.

  2. Mike 125

    not hardware..?

    The article:

    "Qualcomm's been bitten by the bounty bug, signing on with HackerOne to offer up to US$15,000 for vulnerabilities in modems and processors."

    The Qualcomm link:

    "In order to be considered for a reward, submissions must correspond to certain types of software running on specific hardware."

    Strictly it's not vulnerabilities in processors, although the boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred, what with microcode updates and other such distopian nightmares from the pits of hell.

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