By Sean Buckley posted Aug 16th 2012 11:12AM
The folks in Mountain View are starting to
make a habit of getting
hacked -- intentionally, that is. Earlier this year, Google hosted an event at the
CanSecWest
security conference called Pwnium, a competition that challenged
aspiring hackers to poke holes in its Chrome browser. El Goog apparently
learned so much from the event that it's doing it again -- hosting
Pwnium 2 at the
Hack in the Box
10th anniversary conference in Malaysia and offering up to $2 million
in rewards. Bugging out the browser by exploiting its own code wins the
largest award, a cool $60,000. Enlisting the help of a WebKit or Windows
kernel bug makes you eligible for a $50,000 reward, and non-Chrome
exploits that rely on a bug in Flash or a driver are worth $40,000. Not
confident you can break Chrome? Don't let that stop you -- Google plans
to reward incomplete exploits as well, noting that it has plenty to
learn from unreliable or incomplete attacks. Check out the
Chromium Blog at the source link below for the full details.
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