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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Google raises ante for next Chrome hacking contest to $2M

Google yesterday said it will pay up to $2 million for major vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser at a second Pwnium hacking contest this fall.

Pwn2Own, a rival contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, will award as much as $200,000 in a mobile-specific challenge slated to run several weeks earlier.

Google's Pwnium 2 will take place at the Hack In The Box security conference on Oct. 10 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Like the inaugural Pwnium, which Google sponsored in March at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, the upcoming challenge will pit researchers against the then-current version of Chrome. Vulnerability and exploit experts who demonstrate exploits of previously-unknown bugs will be eligible for awards of up to $60,000 for each flaw.

For what Google calls a "full Chrome exploit" -- one that successfully hacks Chrome on Windows 7 using only vulnerabilities in Chrome itself -- Google will pay $60,000 -- the same amount it handed out at the first Pwnium.

A partial exploit that uses one bug within Chrome and one or more others -- perhaps in Windows -- will earn a researcher $50,000, a 25% increase over the same category in the CanSecWest contest. Finally, Google will pay $40,000 for any "non-Chrome" exploit that doesn't involve the browser, but reveals a flaw in, for example, Windows or Adobe's Flash Player -- which is bundled with Chrome.

Google also added a new class of awards for incomplete exploits. "We want to reward people who get 'part way' as we could definitely learn from this work," Chris Evans, a software engineer on the Chrome security team, said in a Wednesday post to Google's Chromium Blog. "Our rewards panel will judge any such works as generously as we can."

The company committed up to $2 million total to Pwnium 2, twice the maximum it risked for the original. It's unlikely it will end up paying anywhere near $2 million; in March, it wrote checks totaling $120,000, or 12% of the $1 million limit.

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To claim any award except in the "incomplete" category, researchers must not only pinpoint the vulnerability but also provide working exploit code to Google.

Evans repeated what Google had said earlier, that the original Pwn2Own was a success. "We were able to make Chromium significantly stronger based on what we learned," he said, referring to the name of the open-source project run by Google that then feeds code into Chrome itself

Both researchers who won $60,000 prizes at the March event -- Sergey Glazunov and someone identified only as "PinkiePie" -- also took home the Pwnie Award last month in the "Best Client-Side Bug" category for their Chrome work.

Another hacking contest will take place several weeks before Pwnium 2.

HP's TippingPoint will run a mobile-only version of its annual Pwn2Own in Amsterdam Sept. 19-20 at the EUSecWest security conference, where hackers will face off against Apple, Nokia, RIM and Samsung smartphones.

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative bug-buying program will host the event, with help from sponsors AT&T and RIM, the struggling maker of the BlackBerry. Prizes total $200,000, a record for Pwn2Own, with the top-dollar award of $100,000 going to the first researcher who demonstrates a hack of cellular baseband, the silicon inside mobile phones that connects them to carrier networks.

Other rewards will be handed out to the first to hack NFC (near field communication), the communications protocol being promoted for mobile payments, and SMS (short message service), the text-messaging service.

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Saturday, August 11, 2012

I am not a normal person. I run on Linux.

An introduction to a new Linux blogger at Network World.

When big companies (and small ones) talk about their “target demographic” – they are never talking about Bryan Lunduke.

When video game companies want to make a hit video game, they never think “what would Bryan play?” I don’t really like things being in 3D. Good old 2D is more my cup of tea. And, if I’m being honest, I prefer lower-resolution games – the more pixilated the better. And words. I like my games to require me to do an inordinate amount of reading.

When was the last time you saw a platinum-selling video game with a resolution of 300x200 that required you to read a few novels-worth of prose just to get through the opening sequence? I am not the average gamer. And I’m okay with that.

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This applies to computers – including desktop environments and applications – almost more so.

The major OS companies of the world (the Microsofts, Apples, Googles, etc.) are not building their systems for me. And there are two key reasons for that.

The first is due to what I do with my computers. The second is… how.

Nowadays, most people live in a web browser. And that web browser is full-screen. This makes total sense – the vast majority of communication and work (that most people do) can be done inside a browser. And if you’re spending time in just one application, why not let it make use of every possible pixel you’ve got?

All of which means that there is an increased emphasis on browsing and web-based apps running full-screen (such as in Google’s ChromeOS and Windows 8). For most people this is…logical.

However, I am not most people. Right now I don’t even have a web browser open. I make indie video games (with nice pixilated graphics), programming tools, comic strips and comic books. All of which is damned near impossible to do in a web browser.

Truth be told, I spend most of my day in text editors, terminals and graphic design tools. My email is handled by a desktop client, not a web interface. Heck, I even read most of my websites through desktop RSS readers instead of loading up a browser.

And I don’t like things full screen.

I like my desktop environments to be highly configurable (weird, right?), light-weight and fast as lightning. Truth be told, I also couldn’t care less if my desktop was easy for someone else to learn to use or not. Right now, that means I’m running xmonad – and loving every second of it.

All of that is a rather long way of saying “Hi. My name is Bryan. I run, and make my living, on Linux. And I’ll be writing here now.”

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