CanSecWest browser-hacking contests offer bigger bounties, get small results

Contest organizers this year increased sixfold the prizes given out for successful zero-day browser exploits during the CanSecWest security conference, but wound up with just three more exploits to show for it. 

The prizes sounded tempting -- more than $1 million was available -- but the net result was that fewer contestants participated, and those who did produced a total of five exploits that browser makers could then patch to make their products safer. This despite the fact that potential participants had two different contests in which to compete.

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The fifth annual Pwn2Own competition, sponsored by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), yielded one zero-day exploit each against current versions of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The contest drew just two teams of competitors.

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