Google launches $200,000 Project Zero bug prize for hacking the Nexus 6P and 5X
L33tdawg: On an unrelated note, Google's resident “exploit enthusiast” Natalie Silvanovich will be delivering the closing keynote at HITBSecConf2017 - Amsterdam in April :)
Hacking can be quite lucrative business, but the better-compensated hacking careers tend to be on the illegal and immoral side of the tracks. If you're a top-notch hacker who wants a little spending money without breaking the law, however, Google wants you to try and break into their Nexus 6P and 5X handsets. And they're stumping up at least $350,000 for “great bugs”.
That bounty is divided into three prize tiers, with the best vulnerability winning $US200,000, the second best $US100,000 and a third place bug gets you $US50,000 . Entrants have between now and 14th March 2017 to enter.
Your common or garden bugs (by which I mean software faults, rather than taking a break into entomology) already attract rewards from Google through their Android rewards program, but these can go for anything between $US200 and $US50,000. By offering a contest with bigger rewards, it seems the company is hoping to attract high-end hackers who won't get out of bed for less than $US100,000.
