$60000 for Exploiting Google Chrome, Hackers at Pwnium work...

$60000 for Exploiting Google Chrome, Hackers at Pwnium work... Google has offered prizes, totalling $1 million, to those who successfully hack the Google Chrome browser at the Pwn2Own hacker contest taking place next week i.e 7 March 2012. Chrome is the only browser in the contest's six year...

CanSecWest Pwn2Own Hacker Contest Targets Smartphones

The organizers of this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own have painted a big bulls-eye on mobile devices, offering up an whopping $60,000 in prizes to entice hackers to exploit vulnerabilities on iPhones, Android, Nokia and BlackBerry smartphones. At Pwn2Own 2010, which takes place in Vancouver on March 2...

Pwn2Own hacker: Safari is 'easy pickings'

Charlie Miller right, the security researcher who won last year’s Pwn2Own hacker contest, is predicting that Apple’s Safari browser will be the easiest target this year. In a note posted on the popular Daily Dave mailing list, Miller describes Safari as “easy pickin’s” and forecasts that at least...