Now that TrendMicro owns TippingPoint, there'll be "more targets and more prize money" according to eWeek, and something special for Pwn2Own's 10th anniversary in March. Slashdot readerdarthcamaro writes: For the first time in its ten-year history, the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition is taking direct aim at linux . Pwn2Own in the past has typically focused mostly on web browsers, running on windows and macOS. There is a $15,000 reward for security researchers that are able to get a local user kernel exploit on Ubuntu 16.10. The bigger prize though is a massive $200,000 award for exploiting Apache Web Server running on Ubuntu.
"We are nine weeks away," TrendMicro posted Wednesday, pointing out that they're giving out over $1 million in bounties, including the following:
$100,000 for escaping a virtualization hypervisor $80,000 for a Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome exploit $50,000 for an exploit of Adobe Reader, Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint $50,000 for an Apple Safari exploit $30,000 for a Firefox exploit $30,000, $20,000 and $15,000 for privilege-escalating kernel vulnerabilities on Windows, macOS and Linux (respectively) $200,000 for an Apache Web Server exploit