http://news.techworld.com/security/3217625/hackers-offered-100000-for-browser-and-phone-exploits/ By John E. Dunn Techworld 17 March 2010 Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 (65,000) the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference. Running for the fourth year at the event, $40,000 of the Pwn2Own contest pot will be on offer to entrants that successfully exploit security vulnerabilities to compromise the top four browsers, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari, equivalent to $10,000 per browser. To win the money outright, the attacks on IE, Firefox and Chrome must work while running on a fully-patched Windows 7, while Safari will be attacked running on OS X Snow Leopard. Brownie points will be gained if the same flaw works on Vista and XP, although the assumption would be that this would be highly likely anyway. To make the contest tougher, attackers can't use third-party plug-ins such as Adobe Flash on day one of the event. These are often a soft underbelly, so excluding them raises the bar. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Mar 17 2010 - 23:51:29 PDT
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