wraggster
January 29th, 2013, 22:50
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/05/dsc03897.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/28/google-pwnium-3/)Google's Chrome security team has taken the wraps off its latest Pwnium competition (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/16/google-teases-hackers-with-2-million-in-prizes-announces-pwniu/). This time out, the target is Chrome OS (http://www.engadget.com/tag/chromeos/) on a Samsung Series 5 550 (http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/29/samsung-chromebook-series-5-550-review/), and as ever, the company's putting its money (and nerd cred) where its mouth is, offering up a $Pi million in rewards (that's a lofty $3.14159 million) for the third round of the competition. Amongst the payouts are $110,000 for a "browser or system level compromise in guest mode or as a logged-in user, delivered via a web page" and $150,000 for a "compromise with device persistence -- guest to guest with interim reboot, delivered via a web page." The company is also putting some weight behind the upcoming Pwn2Own competition, which goes down at CanSecWest (http://www.engadget.com/tag/cansecwest/) in Vancouver in March. More info on both can be found at the source link below.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/28/google-pwnium-3/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/28/google-pwnium-3/