Google Will Give $1 Million In Rewards For Google Chrome Hacking contest

    

      Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome    

For the aftermost three years, Google’s Chrome browser has larboard the world’s premiere hacking antagonism unscathed, alike as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari accept all been taken bottomward by the accumulated aegis researchers. So this year, Google is offering hackers a reward affidavit to re-focus their efforts.

Google appear Monday black that it’s offer up to a million dollars in rewards at the anniversary Pwn2Own hacking contest, which takes abode abutting anniversary at the CanSecWest aegis appointment in Vancouver. Hackers don’t necessarily charge to ambition Chrome to win a block of that money: Google is paying $20,000 to any actor who can accomplishment hackable bugs in Windows, Flash, or a accessory driver, aegis problems that would affect users of all browsers. But for hacks that accommodate flaws specific to Chrome, Google will pay $40,000 each, and for those that accomplishment alone bugs in Chrome, the aggregation will carapace out $60,000, up to its million dollar limit.