Found a bug in Android? Google will pay you up to $40,000 to tell it

Android Security Rewards offers bug bounties to developers who find critical flaws in the operating system

Google will start to pay security researchers who find bugs in its Android devices a reward of up to $40,000 (25,600), in the first extension of its bug bounty programme to the mobile operating system.

The company has also announced a new programme to ensure the security of third-party software on the Android OS by nudging developers to stop using programming libraries which are known to be out-of-date in their applications.