Thursday, February 3, 2011

Google offers 20,000 dollars who successfully attack Chrome

For the first time, the contest Pwn2Own Canadian hackers have a private company offering a reward for a successful experiment. Google has pledged $ 20,000 to successfully attack who get the Chrome browser. At the conclusion of the meeting, if someone locates the first day two vulnerabilities in the browser will receive this amount.

If this does not happen, Google offers $ 10,000 a day who speak second detected a hole in Chrome. There is another prize of equal amount, provided by the organization, who find a failure code of Chrome is not Google. Tipping Point this contest organized annually by hackers and sets goals.

This year, the browsers and mobile phones. Obviously the competition is to identify vulnerabilities, not exploiting them. Google, in fact, has already rewarded the discovery of critical bugs in its programs by third parties

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