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, 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third-party software on the Android OS by nudging developers to stop using programming libraries which are known to be out-of-date in their applications.