Google has a reward of $ 40,000 was paid to the hacker who operates under the nickname Pinkie Pie. He would be the only one during the Pwnium-hackwedstrijd a working exploit have been made for it on the Chrome browser-based operating system.
Shortly after the end of the Pwnium 3 contest would be a fully patched Chromebook, Series 5 550 from Samsung, the attacks of hackers have survived. Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer 10, Java, Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader were cracked. Google, however, held to this communication, a blow to the arm, and let us know that it has a number of entries would be.
After evaluation, it shows only a hacker with the alias Pinkie Pie is a partially working exploit to have submitted to Google, writes the company on its Chromium blog. Before that, he has $ 40,000 in prize money received. Google describes a plausible bug in videoparsing, as well as a bug in the underlying Linux kernel and a configuration file. The found bugs should now in Chrome OS his poem.
Pinkie Pie is a well-known in the detection of errors in Google-software. The hacker knew in previous Pwnium contests, already some hundreds of thousands of dollars on ironing. Google encourages hackers not only through events such as Pwnium to vulnerabilities in its software. So the company has the Chromium Vulnerability Reward Program and bugs and zero-day exploits in all Chrome products logged in may be, in exchange for a possible reward.