Hacker competition offers $100k cash prizes

A hacking contest is offering cash prizes totalling $100,000 to coders managing to break their way into virtually any operating system, either mobile or PC bound. The annual Pwn2Own contest is back for the fourth year running at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, on March 24th 2010. The competition is two pronged. Hackers will be asked to take on the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and IE on Windows 7, and Safari on Mac OS X. The successful execution...