On Tuesday Google's browser users automatically began receiving a new major upgrade to Chrome 10, which incorporates 24 security fixes, based on bug reports from third party security experts. Google's rollout came just one day before PWN2OWn contestants attempt to win a $20,000 cash prize from Google by breaching Chrome's security defenses at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
On the other hand, many third party security experts have already demonstrated that you don't have to go to Vancouver to win cash prizes from Google. Russian security expert Sergey Glazunov, for example, is receiving $6500 in awards from Google for the bug reports behind five of the security fixes released in Chrome 10.
As a result, PWN2OWN contestants are expected to have a much tougher time cracking Chrome's defenses Wednesday. At stake is the $20,000 cash prize that Google has agreed to pay any contestant who can breach the browser's security sandbox using vulnerabilities that are purely present in Google-written code.
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