The annual Pwn2Own contest is next month in Vancouver, and there’s an additional prize this year. As always, the latest copies of Firefox, Safari, and IE will be available as targets – hackers who manage to exploit the browser in a significant way will win a cash prize and the laptop that the browser was running on at the time. For the first time, though, Google’s Chrome is available as a target, and they’ve staked an additional $20,000 as prize money for anyone able to break their product.
Let the games begin. It seems like every year, someone manages to trot out a zero-day exploit and win the contest on at least one platform; it will be interesting to see how Chrome fares against dedicated competition like this.