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A student will receive $60,000 for hacking the Chrome browser
13 03 2012
Student of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of Tyumen State University Serhiy Glazunov, participating in the competition for Pwnium hackers, was the first to discover a critical «hole» in the Chrome browser.
For this, Serhiy will receive a reward from Google in the amount of 60,000 dollars. This is reported on the company’s blog.
The «hole» found by Glazunov, related to the UXSS attack and navigation history in Chrome, was fixed within a day. Google will disclose the details of this vulnerability later when most users have installed the security update.
The Pwnium hacker competition is held in Vancouver (Canada) as part of the CanSecWest computer security conference. Under the terms of the competition, Google promises to pay from 20,000 to 60,000 dollars (depending on the type of vulnerability) to anyone who can bypass the secure environment («sandbox») of the Chrome browser and execute malicious code.
Each winner will also be awarded a Chromebook laptop. The joint prize fund of the competition is one million dollars. In parallel with Pwnium, another major competition for hackers takes place in Vancouver — Pwn2Own.
Previously, S. Glazunov repeatedly received monetary rewards from Google. Last January, the Internet giant paid a programmer an «elite» bonus of $3,133.7 for finding a serious bug in Chrome related to language processing.
For this, Serhiy will receive a reward from Google in the amount of 60,000 dollars. This is reported on the company’s blog.
The «hole» found by Glazunov, related to the UXSS attack and navigation history in Chrome, was fixed within a day. Google will disclose the details of this vulnerability later when most users have installed the security update.
The Pwnium hacker competition is held in Vancouver (Canada) as part of the CanSecWest computer security conference. Under the terms of the competition, Google promises to pay from 20,000 to 60,000 dollars (depending on the type of vulnerability) to anyone who can bypass the secure environment («sandbox») of the Chrome browser and execute malicious code.
Each winner will also be awarded a Chromebook laptop. The joint prize fund of the competition is one million dollars. In parallel with Pwnium, another major competition for hackers takes place in Vancouver — Pwn2Own.
Previously, S. Glazunov repeatedly received monetary rewards from Google. Last January, the Internet giant paid a programmer an «elite» bonus of $3,133.7 for finding a serious bug in Chrome related to language processing.
Based on materials: Vesti