Google has offered to pay $1 million to anyone who can successfully hack its web browser, Chrome.
Chrome has entered an international hacking contest called Pwn2Own for
the past three years and left untouched, while other brand name browsers
like Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox fall victim to hacker
attacks, Forbes reports.
Why the huge cash prize? Google explains in a blog post that it’s
asking for a detailed report of how the hacker was able to exploit the
browser, which is not an official condition of the contest. That
information will go into making future releases of Chrome even safer.
“Not only can we fix the bugs, but by studying the vulnerability and
exploit techniques we can enhance our mitigations, automated testing,
and sandboxing,” write Chrome security engineers Chris Evans and Justin
Schuh.
It all goes down next week as part of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
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