February 3, 2011
The fifth annual Pwn2Own competition has just announced its latest hack target: Google Chrome.The pot is worth US$20,000 and a CR-48 notebook to the person with the best method of cracking Chrome's sandbox.The Google-sponsored competition will take place at the CanSecWestApplied Security Conference scheduled for March 9-11 in Vancouver. Contestants will have 30 minutes to make their attempts.
Learn more about the competition at organizer DVLabs' TippingPoint. Pre-registration closes on February 15th.
The event includes smaller targets and prizes divided into browser and mobile phone categories. As for the big pot, Google will award a prize to the contestant who can pop the browser and escape the sandbox using existing vulnerabilities in Google-written code.
In previous years, Pwn2Own grand winners "pwned" an iPhone, Safari, and a MacBook Pr.
