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Google on Thursday patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, but did not award any of the researchers who reported bugs the new top-dollar reward of $3,133. Google’s most serious threat rating, seven labeled “high” and another pegged as “medium.”

Google on Monday patched five vulnerabilities in Chrome by issuing a new “stable” build of the browser.

Both Mozilla and the Google are raising their rewards for submitted critical vulnerabilities in respective browsers. Mozilla is now paying $3,000 for Firefox bugs and the Google Chromium team is paying $3133.70 (“elite” in hacker leet-speak) for bugs in Chrome, compared to the initial $1,337 reward from six months ago.

Despite Google Chrome‘s strong security track record and increasing popularity, financial institution Chase has announced that it will drop support for the

Whatever you use to surf the Web needs a fix.

A delayed flight didn’t stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool $15,000, a brand-new iPhone, and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

Google has patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome, including one that earned its finder the first $1,337 check from the company’s new bug bounty program.

Apple’s Safari will be the first browser to fall next month at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer predicted today.

A researcher who has won at Pwn2Own the last two years wasn’t so sure.

Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to its Chrome browser, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) last year.

Google has plugged a security vulnerability in its Chrome browser that the company considers critical.

The latest Chrome release — version 2.0.172.33 — fixes an issue that could let a malicious hacker carry out a buffer overflow attack, Google said Monday in an official blog.