Win $10,000 for exploiting Smartphone Bugs

You read it right. Now you can win $10,000 for hacking into a smartphone. A hacking contest to be held at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia next month will award cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break into the most popular smartphones, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry.This should get all the smart people out there really interested.

And the contest has a really cool name too, Pwn2Own.

Terri Forslof, security response manager at 3Com Inc.’s TippingPoint unit, the contest sponsor said that the contest will offer a dual-track hacking challenge for the first time.

The hackers will get to exploit five smartphone operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Google Inc.’s Android, Symbian, and the operating systems used by the iPhone and BlackBerry. The first to break into any of the five smartphones gets to keep that device with a one-year service contract, but each successful exploit pays out $10,000. now isn’t that cool !

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