Google recently announced a contest for hackers held Pwnium titled third time. This contest requires the hacker to break or crack the operating system (OS) Chrome and won $ 3, 14 159 million.
Reported TheRegister, Tuesday (29/01/2013), this contest will be held on March 7, 2013. Hackers are required to penetrate the Chrome operating system on the Samsung Chromebook 550 basic specification that features WiFi.
We offer hundreds of dollars for certain categories of achievement hackers, ranging from USD110.000 and USD150.000. To be able to win a cash prize, a researcher should give Google a complete list of vulnerabilities that are used in the attack, and the code used.
"We believe a great gift reflects additional challenges. Challenge involves the defense and security of Chrome OS attacks, compared with traditional operating systems," said Chris Evans of Google Chrome security team.
Google has sponsored other conference hacking contest, Pwn2Own. This contest prizes as well as an additional $ 100,000 prize laptop for hackers who managed meretasnya.
The search engine giant is also offering a reward of $ 1 million for Pwnium contest. Reportedly, Google launched the Chrome OS strengthened with the strongest security capabilities.
The operating system comes with a combination of hardware and software modules are packaged in the machine, where the technique is currently difficult to attack exploited them.
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