Just ten days after pledging $1 million to hackers able to exploit Chrome, Google's been forced to put its hand in its pocket.
Last month, it announced that it was launching its own security competition, to run alongside the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference.
And now, Russian student Sergey Glazunov has netted himself $60,000 by discovering a new exploit that allowed him to break out of Chrome's 'sandbox' - thus allowing him to take control of a Windows 7 system.
"Congrats to long-time Chromium contributor Sergey Glazunov who just submitted our first Pwnium entry. Looks like it qualifies as a 'Full Chrome' exploit, qualifying for a $60k reward," says senior vice president in charge of Chrome and Google Apps Sundar Pichai on a company blog.
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Last month, it announced that it was launching its own security competition, to run alongside the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference.
And now, Russian student Sergey Glazunov has netted himself $60,000 by discovering a new exploit that allowed him to break out of Chrome's 'sandbox' - thus allowing him to take control of a Windows 7 system.
"Congrats to long-time Chromium contributor Sergey Glazunov who just submitted our first Pwnium entry. Looks like it qualifies as a 'Full Chrome' exploit, qualifying for a $60k reward," says senior vice president in charge of Chrome and Google Apps Sundar Pichai on a company blog.
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