Google did not anticipate when he organized a contest in which defies hackers (hackers) to discover defects browser, "Chrome" to be able boy for the second time this penetration of the browser, and the discovery of a vulnerability and the company described as "critical".
Buccaneer has succeeded or "hacker" who called himself "a bank Bay" harvested sixty thousand dollars is the value of the prize monitored by Google contest the second, which took place on Wednesday at the "Conference Hack In The Box" in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
The Google has announced the contest "Boinyum" (Pwnium)-as Tzmaha- in August / August last spotted her prizes worth two million dollars, earmarked for the first prize sum of sixty thousand dollars, while the total prize competition first million dollars only.
Google described the loophole exposed by "any bank" critically, and said it was "a beautiful work of another", and Google refuses to issue any details about the gaps that are discovered during the competition, but after most users unable to update their browser.
The "bank Bay" won the first prize in the competition and also the first held in Canada in March / March last, while devised a way to break through the isolation technique "Sand Box" Chrome browser at the time. Google was quick to develop an update to avoid that gap exposed by the boy who failed to attend the competition personally and send it with a friend to view the competition.
The Google yesterday to send an automatic update for Chrome as "Steeple renovation Channel" (Stable Channel Update) respect Vulnerability exposed by the young man.
Source: Al Jazeera