Break Google's Chrome, Get Up to $2 Million
Get rich quick. Google just announced its Pwnium 2 contest and if you are able to sweep all price categories, you are going home $2 million richer.
Having recently complained that the notifications of Chrome bugs has somewhat dropped and hinting that Chrome hackers may lose interest in finding new bugs, Google has stepped up not only its bug rewards, but also its Pwnium prize money.
In Pwnium 2, you can participate in the following categories (from the Pwnium 2 blog post):
- $60,000: “Full Chrome exploit”: Chrome / Win7 local OS user account persistence using only bugs in Chrome itself.
- $50,000: “Partial Chrome exploit”: Chrome / Win7 local OS user account persistence using at least one bug in Chrome itself, plus other bugs. For example, a WebKit bug combined with a Windows kernel bug.
- $40,000: “Non-Chrome exploit”: Flash / Windows / other. Chrome / Win7 local OS user account persistence that does not use bugs in Chrome. For example, bugs in one or more of Flash, Windows or a driver.
- $Panel decision: “Incomplete exploit”: An exploit that is not reliable, or an incomplete exploit chain. For example, code execution inside the sandbox but no sandbox escape; or a working sandbox escape in isolation. For Pwnium 2, we want to reward people who get “part way” as we could definitely learn from this work. Our rewards panel will judge any such works as generously as we can.
Sure, to collect the $2 million, there is quite a bit of work and luck involved, but even if you just succeed in one of the two top categories, you are likely to walk away with more money in your pocket than the average American household earns in an entire year.
Pwnium 2 will be held on October 10 at the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Not sure what you're talking about Chrome's favorite pages can be set up just like firefox.
o wait, an exploit, not just crashing it? well... cant do that...
really wish they would improve the whole process thing... firefox uses to little and gets slow, chrome uses to many and crashes my computer, there has to be a middle ground.
Mozilla just doe snot have the cash flow like Google does.
Competition is great and we benefit from it.
When things get lazy and boring, nothing really happens.
If its giving you an actual BSOD chances are its not chrome, its your pc.
no its having well over 150 tabs open. it may take a few hours, but chrome will either crash it self out, or crash so hard that it takes everything else with it.
Yes, and you are welcome to my country, Malaysia O(∩_∩)O~~
But why not October 11? That my birthday 0.0
Well what in the world are you doing with 150 tabs open? Stop hoarding tabs and streamline your life for chrissake! Hardly a fair evaluation overall with such a rare use of Chrome.
lol you got extra room for me buddy?
ill give you rare, but still not an unfounded complaint. because of the way that it will create a new process for every tab, it will screw with windows.
firefox, however, i have something like 170 tabs open, and it more or less runs great right now.
there has to be a middle ground for excessive processes and to few processes.
Yes, as I living in a Hotel, but it is at Melaka, not Kuala Lumpur....