Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Announcing the Native Client Security Contest



Exploits, bugs, vulnerabilities, security holes -- for most programmers these terms are synonymous with fire drills and coding all-nighters. However, for the next 10 weeks, the Native Client team is inviting you to bring them on! We're challenging you to find security exploits in Native Client. Sign up today for the Native Client Security Contest, you could win up to $ 213 , as well as recognition from renowned security researchers.

Before getting started, you must complete the registration process for yourself or your team. Then, you can grab the latest build of Native Client, attack it to find security holes, and submit the ones you discover. You get credit for bugs that your team reports first. If another contestant submits a vulnerability before you, or we publish a fix before you report it, well then... you'll have to keep looking!

At the end of the contest, all entries will be reviewed by a panel of academic experts, chaired by Edward Felten of Princeton University. They will select the five eligible entries with the most high-impact bugs, and these winners will receive cash prizes, as well as earn bragging rights. For more details, please review the contest's terms and conditions.

Registration is now open and the contest will run until May 5th. Sign up today to start reporting exploits as soon as possible.

Happy bug hunting!

15 comments:

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  2. The terms and conditions say:

    The Contest is void in, and not open to residents of, Italy, Brazil, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Myanmar, or to individuals and entities restricted by U.S. export controls and sanctions, and is void in any other nation, state, or province where prohibited or restricted by U.S. or local law.

    Nationals of which other countries not explicitly mentioned above are not permitted to compete? And why are Brazil and Italy excluded?

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  3. Why are Brazil and Italy excluded?

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  4. Why is Brazil out of this contest?

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  6. Por que o Brasil está excluido, isto é discriminação?

    Why Brazil this exclued, this is descrimination?

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  8. There's no reason to put out Brazil from the contest.
    =(

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  9. Maybe Brazil, Italy and Québec has laws that prohibit this kind of competition.

    Talvez o Brasil, a Itália e Québec tenham leis que proibam este tipo de competição.

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  10. Theres is no law about this in Brazil.

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  11. Because Brazil is out?

    I will stop using Google, orkut delete, delete Google Chrome, delete the Google Earth, and everything that Google has of drugs aki in my pc, I installed Mozilla Firefox, using Yahoo, never use any of Google! Google must be grateful to the Brazilian, orkut is not as great as if it were not for us! and now you come and the ability to compete, that anger! never use anything google!

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  12. Cara, apaga isso ou escreve certo.

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  13. Why brazil and Italy ?? O.o
    weird

    this is not good for the image of a U.S. company in these countries.

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  14. Google = PIG CAPITALISTS and RACISTS!
    I wish you never become the richest company of the World.

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  15. The reason for Brazil being excluded from the contest is simple: It is a retaliation against the Brazilian authorities that forced the Brazilian Google branch to open information about some of their Orkut users, which were using it as a tool to perform criminal activities, accusing, thus, Google for being connivant. Maybe similar situations of retaliation are credited to the other - let's say - "good common sense countries", like Italy and the Canadian province of Quebec. As to the other countries, no doubts: they are declared enemies of the United States.

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