Google announces Pwnium 2, raises prize money for Chrome hack to $2m

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Sophos said:
In March this year we wrote about Pwnium, Google's "hack the Chrome browser for money" competition run at the CanSecWest conference.

Two winners took home $60,000 each after crafting devious, multi-stage attacks against the Mountain View browser.

The competition is back, with Pwnium 2 set to take place at the 2012 Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

If you fancy a prize, you've got just under two months to get your exploit ducks in a row - not a terribly long time, if the complexity of the previous winning entries is anything to go by.

There are a few changes from March.

The prize money goes up from $1m to $2m - perhaps a bit of a media stunt by Google, since last time only 12% of the prize money was actually claimed.

The prize categories are adjusted from $20k-$40k-$60k for low-medium-full exploits to $40k-$50k-$60k.


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