Pwn2Own hacker contest will be held for the fifth time

This year, the annual hacking contest Pwn2Own, which usually takes place during a security conference CanSecWest, will be held from 9 to March 11 in Vancouver (Canada). Draws attention to the fact that the total prize pool tournament will be 125,000 dollars, 20,000 of which will be presented separately for hacking the browser ChromekorporatsiiGoogle.

The program includes a competition to overcome the defense of the three major world, browser - MicrosoftInternetExplorer, MozillaFirefox and AppleSafari. Prize money for this kind of hacking will amount to 15 thousand dollars. Brim of each participant Pwn2Own, vskroyuschy safety program of any of the four browsers that receive a laptop computer. Also, hackers can break into smartphones with mobile operating systems AppleiOS, BlackBerry OS, GoogleAndroid and WindowsPhone 7. The award will be decent, but it was a damaged device, and 15 thousand dollars.