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"After outsmarting Google earlier this year, a teenager hacker has\u00A0managed another successful exploit\u00A0of the Chrome browser at\u00A0today's Pwnium 2 hackathon competition.\u00A0The hacker, who goes by the alias &amp;quot;Pinkie Pie&amp;quot;, achieved\u00A0a full Chrome exploit, which should win him a $60,000 cash prize.\r\n\r\nIn March,\u00A0Pinkie Pie\u00A0and\u00A0Sergey Glazunov\u00A0both\u00A0won $60,000\u00A0for their exploits at the first Pwnium competition.\u00A0Google established the Pwnium competition as an alternative to the\u00A0Pwn2own\u00A0contest in order to add the requirement that participants provide details of their exploit.\r\n\r\nThe company had offered to hand out up to $2 million to those who discover vulnerabilities at Pwnium 2, which\u00A0took place as part of\u00A0the Hack In The Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGoogle software engineer Chris Evans is in attendance and has promised to discuss any exploits and vulnerabilities found during the hackathon at a follow-up talk at the conference. Google will &amp;quot;be actively analyzing&amp;quot; any submissions in order to bulk up the security of its browser.\r\n\r\nUpdate:\u00A0Pwnium 2 has now closed with just the one submission from Pinkie Pie. Google has confirmed that it will pay the $60,000 prize and has already patched the flaw.\r\n\r\nIn order to qualify for the cash, his exploit must meet the following criteria:\r\n\u2022 Be an unreported and original exploit, which has not been shared or partially shared with anyone else or submitted in any other contests until it has been submitted to, and judged by, Google.\r\n\u2022 Be an exploit relying on an unreported and original bug, bugs or security feature in Chrome or in Chrome when used in connection with Windows, Flash or other software e.g. drivers.\r\n\u2022 Be a remote exploit accessible through the Chrome browser, which works and is reliable.\r\n\u2022 Be present in the most recent supported channel(s) of Chrome, running on the latest version of Windows7 on the provided test machine.\r\n\u2022 Be a critical vulnerability of high impact.\r\n\u2022 Be authored or created by You.\r\n\u2022 Be submitted with corresponding documentation that details each bug exploited.\r\n(hat tip Gunther_AR)\r\n\r\nHeader image credit: Hack In the Box"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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