{"id":53,"date":"2014-02-02T00:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-02-02T00:31:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:01:40","slug":"google-offering-2-7-million-usd-to-hack-chrome-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/google-offering-2-7-million-usd-to-hack-chrome-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Google offering $2.7 million USD to hack Chrome OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Google is going to offer $2.71828 million USD&nbsp;to researchers who can hack its browser- based operating system, Chrome OS as part of its Pwnium hacking contest to be held in March this year.&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chromium.org\/Home\/chromium-security\/pwnium-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pwnium 4<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, will be hosted at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security is a core tenet of Chromium, which is why we hold regular competitions to learn from security researchers. Contests like Pwnium help us make Chromium even more secure,&#8221; Google said in a blogpost.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;With a total of USD 2.71828 million in the pot, we&#8217;ll issue Pwnium rewards for eligible Chrome OS exploits at USD 110,000 for browser or system-level compromise in guest mode or as a logged-in user, delivered via a web page,&nbsp;<\/span>Google will also pay USD 150,000 for providing an exploit to be able to persistently compromise an HP or Acer Chromebook, i.e. hacking the device to retain control even after a reboot.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier editions of Pwnium competitions focussed on Intel-based Chrome OS devices, but this year Google will allow researchers to also choose from ARM-based Chromebook, the HP Chromebook 11 (WiFi) and the Acer C720 Chromebook (2GB WiFi) based on Intel&#8217;s Haswell microarchitecture.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it would consider larger bonuses this year to researchers who demonstrated what it called a &#8220;particularly impressive or surprising exploit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New this year, we will also consider significant bonuses for demonstrating a particularly impressive or surprising exploit. Potential examples include defeating kASLR, exploiting memory corruption in the 64-bit browser process or exploiting the kernel directly from a renderer process,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is going to offer $2.71828 million USD&nbsp;to researchers who can hack its browser- based operating system, Chrome OS as part of its Pwnium hacking contest to be held in March this year.&nbsp;Pwnium 4, will be hosted at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, Canada. &#8220;Security is a core tenet of Chromium, which is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,15,17],"tags":[12,13,16],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps-n-software","category-news","category-security","category-technology","tag-chrome-os","tag-news","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softcrony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}