Ever hunting for a better digital vaccine, HP’s TippingPoint DVLabs announced a partnership with Google that has the scions of search cosponsoring a hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in March. “This is a part of the 4th annual Pwn2Own contest,” said Google spokesperson Eitan Bencuya. Successfully hack into the Chrome Web browser, and Google will fork over $20,000 and a Chrome CR-48 notebook. The contest shouldn’t be confused with hacking into Chrome OS on a CR-48 notebook, however. Hackers will be attacking Chrome running on Windows 7 or Mac OS X.
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Google Puts a Whopping $20K on the Line to Crowdsource Chrome Security
Posted by: Mike Martin February 3, 2011 11:57 AMEver hunting for a better digital vaccine, HP’s TippingPoint DVLabs announced a partnership with Google that has the scions of search cosponsoring a hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in March. “This is a part of the 4th annual Pwn2Own contest,” said Google spokesperson Eitan Bencuya. Successfully hack into the Chrome Web browser, and Google will fork over $20,000 and a Chrome CR-48 notebook. The contest shouldn’t be confused with hacking into Chrome OS on a CR-48 notebook, however. Hackers will be attacking Chrome running on Windows 7 or Mac OS X.