Qualcomm has recently announced its new Vulnerability Rewards Program, where it is offering £12,000 ($15,000) to anyone able to spot bugs in its modems and processors. The news comes off the back of the DEF CON conference in August where four vulnerabilities were revealed for the company’s chipsets.
Mike Ahmadi, Global Director – Critical Security Systems at Synopsys:
“Modern chipmakers are expected to provide software (firmware) as well as hardware, so it becomes incumbent upon them to address the more challenging world of software security due to the need to meet customer demands. It is like they have solved a problem, through hardware based security, but the customer expects this to extend to everything the chipmaker builds. In order to compete in the marketspace, chipmakers will have to make software security a priority.”
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