15.000$ to safe the Captain - John Draper Healthcare Campaign

During the last months we received several notify mails and messages of John Draper alias Captain Crunch from hospital in the usa. He told us that he have multiple problems with the cost of his healthcare costs. A short time ago the doctor told him that he maybe will lose his leg in the near future.

The core team made some silent calls around him. All what happened to him was with negatively affected by the costs that he wasn't able to cover. Like everybody knows the us healtcare system is not the best, especially to a branded phreaker like john that is in a well connection to the local government since the 80`s.

Oliver S. and Benjamin K.M. came together in a conference and notified several magazine partners and individuals to sahre a campaign that helps john draper to cover the costs.

Google Chrome & Engine - Company increased payment up to 15.000$

In the last week shortly after the update of the microsoft corporation bug bounty program, the google security team rushed to acknowledge that the payment amount of chrome exploits has been increased by the internal security team after a conference.

The company justified the repeated increase so that it is increasingly difficult to discover remote vulnerabilities in the chrome browsers or the engine. Google official announced that the company will reward increased expenses for security researcher accordingly.

Note: July 1st & Bug Reports
Who has filed a security report as issue since July 1 this year, which was accepted by the Google Security Team, should also benefit from the increase to receive an additional bug bounty payment.

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