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Feb. 4, 2011 / 12:08 PM

Google offers bounty for Chrome hack

Attendees await the beginning of the unveiling of the Nexus One Android smart phone, the first mobile phone the internet company will sell directly to consumers, during a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. UPI/Robert Galbraith/Pool

Attendees await the beginning of the unveiling of the Nexus One Android smart phone, the first mobile phone the internet company will sell directly to consumers, during a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. UPI/Robert Galbraith/Pool | License Photo

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Hackers are preparing for a competition in Canada and Google says it's betting $20,000 they can't hack its Chrome Internet browser.

The Pwn2Own hacking competition, set for March 9-11 in Vancouver, announced that Google has augmented the contest's own $105,000 cash award fund for anyone who can compromise the Chrome browser, InformationWeek reported Friday.

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Potential hackers at the contest will also try and crack the latest release candidates of other browsers, including Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Mozilla's Firefox.

Awards of this kind are helpful in promoting the controlled release of vulnerabilities in software, InformationWeek said.

Three months ago, Google expanded its bug bounty program, which pays $500 to $3,000 for previously undiscovered software flaws.

The program, launched in January 2010 to reward people reporting Chrome bugs, was expanded to cover the company's Web sites in November.

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