For hacking Chrome promised one million dollars

Google. will distribute a total of about one million dollars for vulnerabilities found in Chrome browser in the Pwn2Own hacking contest.

Million prize company will break into several dozen awards for 60, 40 and 20 thousand dollars, which will be distributed among the winners, depending on what methods will be used hackers.

The biggest prize of 60 thousand. dollars will get the hackers who have access to a foreign account in Chrome, using only the vulnerability of the program. Prizes in the 40 th. dollars will be given to specialists who will resort to hack -to-use vulnerabilities not only in the browser, but also in other software that interacts with the browser - for example, a bug in the operating system of Windows, where a browser.

20 thousand. dollars will be hackers who gain access to another's account in Chrome, using a vulnerability in Windows and Flash, not trying to hack the browser.

Google Chrome is the very first version of its originators was positioned as the most secure software for viewing Web pages. Google itself is regularly integrates new tools to ensure security as well as practicing allowances enthusiasts who discovered vulnerabilities in protective systems, the browser.

Last year at Pwn2Own nobody has been able to crack the protection Chrome, despite the promise of a reward of 20 thousand. USD. Thus, Chrome retained the title is not compromised browser the third consecutive year.

According to experts, the Chrome browser will soon become one of the key aims of the authors of malicious software, because it is gaining popularity among users. In late November last year, it became known that Chrome was first walked on the popular browser Firefox, up to this point is second only to Internet Explorer place in the ranking of the most popular browsers. According to the analytical site StatCounter, Chrome share the results of November amounted to 25,69%, Firefox - 25,23%. In January the gap between the two rivals increased: on Chrome had 28.4%, in Firefox - 24,7% of the market.

The annual Pwn2Own hacking contest will be held in the Canadian city of Vancouver from 7 to 9 March, as part of an international conference on information security CanSecWest.

M. to.