Teenager Wins $60K For Hacking Into Google

DaveNoCheese

A teenager who goes by the name Pinkie Pie has made $60,000 (£37,446) for hacking into Google for a second time.

Google offers the "bug bounty" to hackers who can find security problems with its products.

The youngster found holes in the Chrome web browser that were described by Google as "critical" and called the finding "another beautiful piece of work", according to VentureBeat.

Google fixed the problem with a software update about 10 hours after the bug was identified.

The competition took place on Tuesday at a conference called Hack in the Box in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I must brush up on my l33t hacking skillz 'cause $60k is nice walking around money :rolleyes:

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akura

The lucky bugger

gears

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DaveNoCheese

You made my brain hurt? :cool:

Remmy

He must be able to type really really fast.

TheBoss!

Meh, Matthew Broderick almost started a war.

Here is a dramatisation of the google hacking contest: (NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfy5dFhw3ik

gears

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

You made my brain hurt? :cool:

50.-.-`/

1ZRed

He hacked google.. Twice?!


I could only get to level 5 on codeacademy.

Your accounts are safe

28064212

He hacked Google? Yeah, I'm sure he stole all their interwebs and disabled all their firewall ports on the way out.

He found a potential vunerability in an internet browser. Pathetic reporting by Sky. It's the equivalent of having a headline in the Sports section of "Man U Rovers win Cup by 3 Touchdowns"

Capt'n Midnight

the real money is in hacking the browser and not telling google

splendid101

28064212 wrote: »

It's the equivalent of having a headline in the Sports section of "Man U Rovers win Cup by 3 Touchdowns"

That was some match though in fairness.

Peregrine

Hacking? He found vulnerabilities in their Chrome browser in a competition hosted by Google..for the sole purpose of getting people to find vulnerabilities
Barely hacking..

Rosedust84

A my little pony hacked Google???

MagicSean

I think Sony have an open reward offer for anyone who can crack the PS3.

dx22

Did he type 'google' into google and break the internet?

IM0

ah so THATS why I couldnt get onto google the other day.

Little Acorn

Where does it say it was a male?
Does "Pinkie Pie" (my little pony) not sound a bit more feminine?

Esoteric_

It's probably a Brony, with a name like that.

Until the kid launches a DDOS attack on Google, I won't believe that he/she did any real hacking.

lemon_remon

LyndaMcL wrote: »

It's probably a Brony, with a name like that.

Until the kid launches a DDOS attack on Google, I won't believe that he/she did any real hacking.

I'll believe he's a real hacker when he's created a GUI interface in Visual Basic to find Google's IP.

areyawell

If its not a big deal some of the smart arses here should go look for security vunerabilities in chrome or would ye even know where to start? doubt it

Esoteric_

lemon_remon wrote: »

I'll believe he's a real hacker when he's created a GUI interface in Visual Basic to find Google's IP.

We're not all that technologically advanced.

lemon_remon

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Hacking? He found vulnerabilities in their Chrome browser in a competition hosted by Google..for the sole purpose of getting people to find vulnerabilities
Barely hacking..

That's what 'hacking' is. I'm not sure exactly what vulnerability he found but it might for example, allow someone to create web page with a script with direct access to your OS and cause all sorts of harm.