{"id":4629,"date":"2014-01-29T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2014-01-29T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T17:30:34","slug":"google-bets-2-7-million-in-chrome-hacking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/01\/29\/google-bets-2-7-million-in-chrome-hacking-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Google bets $2.7 million in Chrome hacking contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google says it will again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a Canadian security conference in March, putting $2.7 million at stake to draw researchers who can hack its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS.<\/p>\n

Dubbed Pwnium 4, the challenge will again pit researchers against Chrome OS, but this year will let them choose between Intel- or ARM-powered laptops. In 2013, hackers had to try to crack a Chromebook with an Intel processor.<\/p>\n

Prizes of $110,000 and $150,000 will again be rewarded to individuals or teams who can hack the operating system, with the top dollar handed to those who deliver an exploit able to persistently compromise a Hewlett-Packard or Acer Chromebook\u2014in other words, hijack the device so that it remains under their control even after a reboot.<\/p>\n

Google capped the total up for grabs at $2.71828 million, giving multiple researchers a chance at prize money. The \u201c2.71828\u201d comes from a mathematical constant that is the base of the natural logarithm.<\/p>\n

Mixed results last year<\/p>\n

Last year Google put $3.14159 million in the pot\u2014another nod to mathematics, as those are the first six digits of the value of Pi\u2014but paid out just $40,000 to a prolific hacker who goes by \u201cPinkie Pie,\u201d the contest\u2019s sole participant, for what Google later called a partial exploit.<\/p>\n

Google also said it would consider larger bonuses this year to researchers who demonstrated what it called a \u201cparticularly impressive or surprising exploit,\u201d such as one that could circumvent kASLR, (kernel Address Space Layout Randomization), a relatively new variant of the better-known ASLR anti-exploit technology used by Apple\u2019s iOS and OS X, Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8 and Chrome OS.<\/p>\n

Even with bonuses in play, it\u2019s unlikely that Google will end up spending anywhere close to $2.7 million this year.<\/p>\n

To qualify for the prizes or bonuses, winners must provide functional exploit code and details on all the vulnerabilities put into play, as was the case last year.<\/p>\n

Pwnium 4 will take place March 12 at CanSecWest, the Vancouver, British Columbia security conference known for another hacking contest, Pwn2Own, which last year was co-sponsored by HP\u2019s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) bug bounty program and Google. HP has not yet announced the details of its 2014 challenge.<\/p>\n

The official rules for Pwnium 4 can be found on Google\u2019s Chromium Security page.<\/p>\n

via Google bets $2.7 million in Chrome hacking contest | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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