The CanSecWest conference announced on Tuesday the format for this
year's competition in which security pros can attempt to compromise a
laptop computer's operating system to win the laptop and potentially a
cash reward.
Dubbed the "PWN2OWN" competition, the contest will give security
professionals the opportunity to hack one of three systems: up-to-date
versions of Microsoft's Windows Vista, Apple's Mac OS X, and Ubuntu
Linux. To win the contest, a person must run code on the laptop using a
previously unknown vulnerability in the operating system or a major
application, such as a Web browser, a plug-in browser program, an
instant messaging client, or an e-mail reader.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/705