How to earn $ 225,000 in 2 days

The mind. Korean researcher and "serial" browser hacker JungHoon Lee, operating under the nickname lokihardt, showed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome (for Microsoft Windows), and Apple Safari (for OS X) in the hacking contest Pwn2Own. Along the way, he also “broke” the Adobe Reader and Flash Player plugins.



The aim of the competition was to demonstrate the dangers of the main 64-bit browsers of the top four. What is the income? For Google Chrome, he received the largest payout in the history of the contest for one exploit, $ 75,000; an additional payment of $ 25,000 - for increasing the rights to the system, as well as a bonus of $ 10,000 for hacking the beta version of the browser, that is, only $ 110,000.

For successful "opening" the body of IE11 exploit Yun Hong Li received $ 65,000. Safari forked out another $ 50,000, demonstrating loyalty to its tightness, despite breaking their impeccability.

In just two days, the guy earned 225,000 US dollars, and as a bonus, all participants received the provided laptops, on which they participated in the competition. A special point is that, unlike competitors working in teams, Yun Hong Li acted alone. In general, I earned it with my mind.

Who else has a good income?

Member ilxu1a received $ 15,000 for successfully hacking Mozilla Firefox for Windows. A day earlier, Mozilla Firefox was also hacked by Mariusz Mlynski - its exploit also increased user rights to the system due to a hole in the Windows kernel. This vulnerability brought him a bonus of $ 24,000 over the standard payout of $ 30,000 for Firefox hacking.

Earlier that day, the Chinese teams Team509 and KeenTeam joined forces and hacked the Flash Player running on Internet Explorer 11 under Windows. Like Mlinsky's hack, they used a hole in the Windows kernel and earned $ 85,000.

$ 55,000 went to the KeenTeam team, paired with Tencent PC Manager Jun Mao, for hacking Adobe Reader on IE11.

Nicolas Joly earned $ 90,000 for hacking Adobe Reader and Flash Player.

In general, knowledge is power. And money.

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