Hackers Failed To Crack Google's Chrome OS At CanSecWest

By Ashwin Ananthapadmanabhan

Hackers Failed To Crack Google's Chrome OS At CanSecWest


Cyber criminals and crackers seemingly love Microsoft technologies - whether it be IE or Windows as they allow these criminals to take control of user's system. But there is a new contender which these criminals would hate - it's Linux-based Chrome OS.
Google offered a pie, US$ 3.14 million, to anyone who can crack the Chrome OS at the CanSecWest Pwnium 3 cracking contest.
Chris Evans, of Google Chrome Security team said earlier:
We’ll issue Pwnium 3 rewards for Chrome OS at the following levels, up to a total of $3.14159 million USD:

$110,000: browser or system level compromise in guest mode or as a logged-in user, delivered via a web page.
$150,000: compromise with device persistence -- guest to guest with interim reboot, delivered via a web page.
We believe these larger rewards reflect the additional challenge involved with tackling the security defenses of Chrome OS, compared to traditional operating systems.
The conditions that Google laid for attackers were that "the attack must be demonstrated against a base (WiFi) model of the Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook, running the latest stable version of Chrome OS. Any installed software (including the kernel and drivers, etc.) may be used to attempt the attack. For those without access to a physical device, note that the Chromium OS developer’s guide offers assistance on getting up and running inside a virtual machine."
The deadline was extended at the request of researchers but the contested ended without anyone succeeding in cracking the Chrome OS. The Google Chrome team posted on Google + "We just closed out the competition. We did not receive any winning entries but we are evaluating some work that may qualify as partial exploits. Thanks to those who attempted, see you next time!"

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