Google Offers Hackers $3,14159 Million Challenge

Google continuously raises the bar of their security by not only employing one of the greatest security teams in the world, but now, by upping their latest challenge to hackers in an attempt to pay for weaknesses in their products. The difference with this challenge is that it offers an unusually LARGE amount of money. According to a notice posted Monday on its blog, the company will offer up $3,14159 million prizes to hackers who can demonstrate critical security vulnerabilities in its Chrome OS operating system running on a Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook, and all of this will take place in March at its third annual Pwnium hacking competition in Vancouver. Any participant who can take over a Chromebook user’s browser or entire computer via a malicious Web page can earn a $110,000 payout. AND if the hacker can maintain consistent control over the system between reboots of the machine, he or she can win $150,000. These prizes have received a significant bump from previous bounties offered by Google.

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