Google on Wednesday updated the Chrome browser for the third time since the start of May. Chrome 51.0.2704.79 for Windows, Mac, and Linux patched 15 vulnerabilities. It also paid out $14,000 in bounties to prolific bug hunters Mariusz Mlynski ($7,500) and Rob Wu ($6,500). The previous Chrome update on May 27 addressed 42 flaws with...

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski is having a good month. Having cashed in earlier in May to the tune of $15,500, Mlynski pocketed another $30,000 courtesy of Google’s bug bounty program after four high-severity vulnerabilities were patched in the Chrome browser, each worth $7,500 to the white-hat hacker. On Thursday afternoon, Google pushed out Chrome version...