Google has upped its bug bounty offers to cybersecurity researchers, with up to $1.5 million on ... [+] offer for successful hacks of its Pixel phones. Anyone hoping to receive the reward will have to break Google’s Titan M “secure element.” Similar to Apple’s iPhone Secure Element, Titan M is a security chip that acts as a kind of guardian for device data. Benevolent hackers can find out how much they can earn via Google’s updated Android Security Rewards Program Rules page. Just earlier this week, Forbes reported on Huawei’s own bug bounty, which had briefly outdone Google in offering $220,000 for a remote control hack of its many Android devices. When asked about them, Android security and privacy communications manager Scott Westover told Forbes: “We think the Android Security Rewards program has proven to be a huge benefit to the community, so we want to continue to incentivize the best researchers in the world to participate.” French researcher Robert Baptiste told Forbes that while some hackers would continue to sell to governments and their contractors, Google’s announcement sent “a very positive signal for the information security community and security in general.”
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