Mobile Pwn2Own 2012 will put up a $200,000 cash bounty for a challenge that matches the best hackers/researchers against fully patched iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices.
According to contest cosponsor TippingPoint ZDI, the main objective in the special edition is to present the potential vulnerabilities and exploits in dominant mobile technologies today. These include hack attacks on mobile web browsers, near field communication (NFC), short messaging service (SMS) and cellular …

Google BET: One Million Dollars For The Hackers Who Break Chrome! / image via Flickr

Google is once again betting on the quality of their Internet browser Chrome. The company will offer prizes totaling one million dollars for the hackers who manage to break Google Chrome during the already well-known online security conference, CanSecWest.
Hackers interested in this will have to find ways of exploitation as severe of the Web browser Google Chrome in order to win the prizes offered by the …

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Google Chrome does contain a flaw, a claim courtesy of a French security firm that incites anxiety for vending the information to government customers rather than share it with Google, which will be the first known exploit once proven.
Vupen Security succeeded in bypassing and executing arbitrary code inside Google Chrome’s sandbox; however, Vupen said in a blog post that it was only sharing the exploit code and technical details with its government …