Pwn2Own 2011
HP TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team announced the fifth Pwn2Own competition.
Pwn2Own is a hacker competition that has been held at CanSecWest’s annual security conference since 2007. Competitors need to find and use vulnerabilities in the proposed browsers and mobile devices. Winners receive a device and a cash prize.
TippingPoint reports every vulnerability found in the product to the developer of this product. Details about the vulnerability are not disclosed until it is fixed.
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This year, the total prize pool has grown to $ 125,000. Of these, 105,000 are provided by HP TippingPoint, and the remaining 20,000 will be provided by Google to anyone who can find a vulnerability in Chrome.
Browsers will be presented with the latest release candidates (at the time of the competition) of the following products:
64-bit system with the latest version of OS X or Windows 7.
Prizes among laptops:
As for Chrome, the competition will be held in two parts.On the 1st day, Google will offer $ 20,000 and CR-48 for a found vulnerability in code written by Google. If the contest fails, on the 2nd and 3rd days ZDI will offer $ 10,000 for a vulnerability in code written not by Google, and Google will offer $ 10,000 for a bug found in Chrome.
Mobile devices are represented by the following products:
If you want to participate, write an email to zdi@tippingpoint.com with your name, browser / device, and anything else you may need (network connection, static IP, and so on).
Pre-registration will end on February 15th. On this day, the order in which the contestants will make their attempts will be determined by the draw. Each participant will have 30 minutes to try.
The competition will be held March 9, 10 and 11 in Vancouver. To keep track of the news you can follow @ thezdi or @ aaronportnoy or follow the hashtag # pwn2own .
Pwn2Own is a hacker competition that has been held at CanSecWest’s annual security conference since 2007. Competitors need to find and use vulnerabilities in the proposed browsers and mobile devices. Winners receive a device and a cash prize.
TippingPoint reports every vulnerability found in the product to the developer of this product. Details about the vulnerability are not disclosed until it is fixed.
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This year, the total prize pool has grown to $ 125,000. Of these, 105,000 are provided by HP TippingPoint, and the remaining 20,000 will be provided by Google to anyone who can find a vulnerability in Chrome.
Browsers
Browsers will be presented with the latest release candidates (at the time of the competition) of the following products:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer;
- Apple Safari;
- Mozilla Firefox;
- Google Chrome.
Prizes among laptops:
- Sony Vaio on Windows 7;
- Alienware m11x on Windows 7;
- Apple MacBook Air 13 ″ on Mac OS X Snow Leopard;
- Google CR-48 on ChromeOS (this device and OS will not participate directly in the competition, the Chrome browser will work on other laptops).
As for Chrome, the competition will be held in two parts.
Mobile devices
Mobile devices are represented by the following products:
- Dell Venue Pro on Windows 7;
- iPhone 4 on iOS;
- Blackberry Torch 9800 on Blackberry 6 OS;
- Nexus S on Android.
check in
If you want to participate, write an email to zdi@tippingpoint.com with your name, browser / device, and anything else you may need (network connection, static IP, and so on).
Pre-registration will end on February 15th. On this day, the order in which the contestants will make their attempts will be determined by the draw. Each participant will have 30 minutes to try.
The competition will be held March 9, 10 and 11 in Vancouver. To keep track of the news you can follow @ thezdi or @ aaronportnoy or follow the hashtag # pwn2own .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/113112/
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