Google launches ‘hackathon’ with a prize of US$200000 to hack … – CNET in Spanish

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do you Know how to program? Do you know how to hack? Would you like to win up to US$ 200,000?

If the answer is “yes” to these three questions, Google has a challenge for you.

The giant of technology on Tuesday announced a hackathon called Project Zero which has, as a main rule that developers can only use the phone number and the email of a user to access their Android device. The person that wins the first prize will receive US$ 200,000, the second prize is US$ 100,000 and the third is US$ 50,000.

Google has made this kind of contests before. In June of 2015, the company launched the security program for your Android hackers cazaran these bugs and receive monetary awards. This program came after Google received an alert of a security company that found that 95 percent of the Android phones had a vulnerability in its programming that could be exploited when a user opened a video message sent using the user’s phone.

however, Google is seen in the position of having to again offer an incentive to find some, or any, vulnerability in Android.

According to Google, there are three reasons to offer another contest hack. The first is to be able to see closely the steps that it takes a hacker to find and exploit the bug in the programming. Each delivery shall be accompanied by a document of the technical procedure of the hacker. The second reason is more obvious: fix the problems that exist and are sometimes not reported. Finally, he said the company, is to begin to store data on these bugs to understand, for example, what as soon as you can find, how many are found and what information was obtained.

During this hackathon of six months, Google wants to receive deliveries immediately and more often than before. Google added that it will consider the reports that do not win this contest, for other types of awards.

The contest starts this September 13. The rules of the contest Project Zero are online. Good luck!