HP's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is dangling more than $300,000 in cash to entice hackers to demonstrate zero-day attacks against the Apple iOS, Android, Windows RT and BlackBerry mobile platforms.
Google and BlackBerry will join HP ZDI as challenge sponsors.
The organizers plan to pay as much as $100,000 for exploits that target the baseband layer of mobile devices and $70,000 for a full code execution compromise of messaging services like SMS, MMS or CMAS (Commercial Mobile Alert System).
Attacks against short-distance technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-FI, USB or Near Field Communications (NFC) will pay out $50,000 while mobile web browser compromises will fetch $40,000.
The organizers also plan to shell out $40,000 in cash prizes for a compromise of mobile applications or the actual mobile operating system.
In the mobile web browser category, Google’s Chrome Security Team will thrown in a "top-up reward" if a hacker successfully compromises Chrome on Android, either on Google Nexus 4 or Samsung Galaxy S4. Google says the prize amount will be bumped by $10k to make it a total of $50,000.
Researchers can pick any of these mobile devices to target:
• Nokia Lumia 1020 running Windows Phone
• Microsoft Surface RT running Windows RT
• Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android
• Apple iPhone 5 running iOS
• Apple iPad Mini running iOS
• Google Nexus 4 running Android
• Google Nexus 7 running Android
• Google Nexus 10 running Android
• BlackBerry Z10 running BlackBerry 10
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Google and BlackBerry will join HP ZDI as challenge sponsors.
The organizers plan to pay as much as $100,000 for exploits that target the baseband layer of mobile devices and $70,000 for a full code execution compromise of messaging services like SMS, MMS or CMAS (Commercial Mobile Alert System).
Attacks against short-distance technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-FI, USB or Near Field Communications (NFC) will pay out $50,000 while mobile web browser compromises will fetch $40,000.
The organizers also plan to shell out $40,000 in cash prizes for a compromise of mobile applications or the actual mobile operating system.
In the mobile web browser category, Google’s Chrome Security Team will thrown in a "top-up reward" if a hacker successfully compromises Chrome on Android, either on Google Nexus 4 or Samsung Galaxy S4. Google says the prize amount will be bumped by $10k to make it a total of $50,000.
Researchers can pick any of these mobile devices to target:
• Nokia Lumia 1020 running Windows Phone
• Microsoft Surface RT running Windows RT
• Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android
• Apple iPhone 5 running iOS
• Apple iPad Mini running iOS
• Google Nexus 4 running Android
• Google Nexus 7 running Android
• Google Nexus 10 running Android
• BlackBerry Z10 running BlackBerry 10
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