Google announces Pwnium 2 - Offers up $2 million to Chrome hackers at #HITB2012KUL
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If Google hadn’t made the message clear enough already: It really, really wants you to hack its software.
On Wednesday the company announced that it’s holding another competition for hackers to target its Chrome browser, following the Pwnium competition it held in Vancouver in March, where it offered a total of $1 million in hacking prizes. This time it’s putting a total of $2 million in rewards on the table for anyone who can find bugs in its browser, exploit them, and tell Google’s security team the details of their techniques.
“The first Pwnium competition held earlier this year exceeded our expectations,” Google security engineer Chris Evans wrote in a blog post. “Most importantly, we were able to make Chromium [the open-source code base on which Chrome is built] significantly stronger based on what we learned.” The contest will be held in October at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “We hope this gives enough time for the security community to craft more beautiful works, which we’d be more than happy to reward and celebrate,” Evans wrote.
