http://digital-era.net/flash-reader-fir ... own-day-1/
Hackers can work in the open and earn money while doing their stuff.
This kind of contest for hackers is one of the best ideas to prevent compromising systems in the future. Offer them money and they work for the good guys.
Four different research teams on Wednesday cracked four products–Adobe Flash, Reader, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer—and collectively earned a payout of $317,000 on the first day of Pwn2Own 2015.
The annual hacking contest, which kicked off Wednesday in Vancouver, runs concurrently with CanSecWest and is hosted by HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Google’s Project Zero.
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$60,000 for 30 seconds of work
Interesting about the firefox hack...so would it be classed as a windows flaw or a firefox one? Mind you the later releases get a bit too system involved for my comfort.
mikeAccording to HP Security Research’s Dustin Childs there was a fundamental Windows flaw that figured into Młyński’s Firefox hack and that Microsoft has been notified of the vulnerability.