As part of this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest, Google is offering $20,000 and a CR-48 laptop running Chrome OS to a hacker who can exploit a security hole in its Chrome browser.
The contestant must use the vulnerabilities purely present in Google-written code and escape the sandbox for the hack to be successful.
Organized by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team at HP TippingPoint, the contest offers further prizes totaling $105,000 for successful hacks on Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox, as well as these mobile phones: Dell Venue Pro running Windows 7, iPhone 4 running iOS, Blackberry Torch 9800 running Blackberry 6 OS and Nexus S running Android.
Successful hacks on these will net the able hacker $15,000 in cash and the device itself, as well as monetary bonuses for further ZDI submissions in 2011.