Pwn2Own 2011 contest will be going live in the next 24 hours, i.e. on 9th March, 2011. Last year, all the major browsers and the iPhone were hacked.
But Google’s Chrome Browser came untouched. This year, Google is offering a $20,000 cash prize for any hacker who can successfully compromise a Windows 7 machine via a vulnerability — and sandbox escape — in its Chrome web browser. The sandbox is designed to prevent attacks on a system when an exploit has managed to inject and execute code via a vulnerability.
Also, competitors who successfully exploit Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox will bag a $15,000 cash prize as well as a laptop. Hackers will also get an opportunity to have their way with various mobile phone platforms including iOS on an iPhone 4, Windows Phone 7 on a Dell Venue Pro, Blackberry 6 on a Blackberry Torch 9800, and Android on a Nexus S. Successfully compromising any of those targets will secure the participant $15,000 in cash, the device itself, and 20,000 ZDI (Zero Day Initiative, founded by TippingPoint) reward points.
Apple has reportedly claimed to have patched its Safari browser before the Pwn2Own hacking contest. Last week, Apple also patched about 57 vulnerabilities in iTunes. Also, Microsoft has not patched any vulnerabilities in IE8.
Jenny Lewis at MobilesDNA tells us that an iPhone hacker will be demonstrating a new way to jailbreak and hack the iPhone. The same hacker, last year, hacked the iPhone and hijacked it’s SMS database without jailbreaking it. The hacker, @dinodaizovi, now claims to hack the iPhone through some BaseBand hole and use it for spying purposes. The thing that happens in movies. Pretty excited to see what happens!
A total of $125,000 worth of Prizes will be given away. Out of which, $20,000 will be rewarded by Google for breaking the sandbox 😉
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