In an effort to enlist more help finding bugs in its most popular software, such as Firefox, Thunderbird and Firefox Mobile, Mozilla is jacking up the bounty it pays to researchers who report security flaws to $3,000.The new price tag is a major increase over the payment of $500 with which the Mozilla Foundation launched its bug bounty program six years ago. Mozilla is one of a handful of vendors who make it known publicly that it will pay for bugs found in their software and reported directly to them. The foundation does set out quite a few conditions in order for a researcher to claim the payment, namely that the bug must be a critical security flaw and must be remotely exploitable.Lucas Adamski, director of security engineering at Mozilla, said that the organization decided to increase its payments in reaction to the changes that have occurred in the security landscape since the program launched in 2004.

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