{"id":80,"date":"2011-02-04T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-02-04T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:31:39","slug":"hack-chrome-win-20k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Hack Chrome, Win $20k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Pwn2Own contest is next month in Vancouver, and there&#8217;s an additional prize this year. As always, the latest copies of Firefox, Safari, and IE will be available as targets &#8211; 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&#8217;s Chrome is available as a target, and they&#8217;ve staked an additional $20,000 as prize money for anyone able to break their product.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Pwn2Own contest is next month in Vancouver, and there&#8217;s an additional prize this year. As always, the latest copies of Firefox, Safari, and IE will be available as targets &#8211; hackers who manage to exploit the browser in a significant way will win a cash prize and the laptop that the browser was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploits","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}