The Project Zero Contest - Google will pay $200,000 to Hack Android OS

Why sitting tight for scientists and bug seekers to know vulnerabilities in your items, when you can simply toss a challenge for that. 

Google has dispatched its own particular Android hacking challenge with the main prize champ accepting $200,000 in real money. 

That is a Hefty Sum! 

The challenge is an approach to discover and wreck risky Android vulnerabilities before programmers misuse them in nature. 

The opposition, named 'The Project Zero Prize,' is being controlled by Google's Project Zero, a group of security analysts committed to recording basic bugs and making the web a more secure spot for everybody. 

What's the Requirements? 

Beginning Tuesday and consummation on March 14, 2017, the challenge will just recompense money prizes to contenders who can effectively hack any form of Android Nougat on Nexus 5X and 6P gadgets. 

Notwithstanding, the catch here is that Google needs you to hack the gadgets knowing just the gadgets' telephone numbers and email addresses. 

For working of their adventures, hopefuls are permitted to trap a client into open an email in Gmail or a SMS instant message in Messenger, however no other client communication past this is permitted. 

In this way, on the off chance that you need to take part in 'The Project Zero Prize' challenge, you are encouraged to concentrate on imperfections or bug chains that would permit you to perform Remote Code Execution (RCE) on various Android gadgets. 

"Notwithstanding the presence of defenselessness prizes programs at Google and different organizations, numerous one of a kind, amazing security bugs have been found as an aftereffect of hacking challenges," Project Zero security scientist Natalie Silvanovich said in a blog entry while reporting the opposition. 

Thusly, the organization has taken this activity to run its own particular hacking challenge looking for extreme Android security vulnerabilities. 

Challenge Cash Prizes 

To begin with Prize: worth $200,000 USD will be granted to the principal winning passage. 

Second Prize: worth $100,000 USD will be honored to the second winning passage. 

Third Prize: At minimum $50,000 USD will be recompensed to extra winning passages. 

Other than money prizes, champs will likewise be welcome to compose a short specialized report portraying their entrance, which will then be posted on the Project Zero Blog.