While both Safari and IE give under the pressing from hackers at last yr ’s Pwn2Own contest , not one soul was capable to crack Chrome . This year , Google ’s edulcorate the pot with a million dollars in prizes to successful exploiters .
In fact , Chrome is the only web browser app in the competition ’s six year history to not be overwork — like , at all . Therefore Google will reach out prizes of $ 60,000 , $ 40,000 , and $ 20,000 for protester able to remotely commandeer a fully - patched web web browser hightail it on Windows 7 . happen a “ Full Chrome Exploit , ” obtaining user accounting perseverance using only bugs in the browser app itself will sack up the $ 60k swag . Using webkits , flash , or a driver - base exploit can only earn the lesser amounts .
The company will not , however , shop at the competition itself as it has in twelvemonth ’s past tense . Google pull its supporting after finding that late regulation change allowed drudge to lay claim prize money without in reality revealing the inner working of the exploit to vendors . Which is kind of the intact distributor point of these contests . [ ChromiumBlog viaArs Technica ]
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