Google Opens $250K Bug Bounty Contest for VM Hypervisor (www.darkreading.com)

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If security researchers can execute a guest-to-host attack using a zero-day vuln in the KVM open source hypervisor, Google will make it worth their while.

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[-] EmperorHenry@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

looks like google is going bankrupt in a bit

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Why? They're not placing the bug bounty on their own code... But KVM the in kernel virtualization platform built into Linux.

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