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Uncategorized Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 3:05 pm

Pinkie Pie Once Again Finds Chrome Exploit, Takes Home $60,000 Pwnium 2 Prize

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In case you missed it, Google just hosted their Pwnium 2 competition at the Hack In The Box conference in Malaysia. Like the name implies, this is the second such competition hosted by the search engine giant in order to improve the security in their Google Chrome browser. Pinkie Pie, for the second time this year, won the $60,000 prize for successfully producing the first Chrome vulnerability at the conference. Sadly, the name is just a handle, but we couldn’t resist the above image.

TechCrunch explains:

A teenage hacker who goes by the name of “Pinkie Pie” will receive $60,000 in prize money from Google, by producing the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack in the Box conference on Wednesday. The exploit was discovered and successfully launched just ahead of the deadline for completion, according to early reports from the event. Before awarding the cash prize, Google had to first verify and confirm the vulnerability – which it just now did, the company tells us via email. More details have also been posted to the Google Chrome blog.

According to the blog post, the hack involves the following exploit:

  • [$60,000][154983][154987] Critical CVE-2011-2358: SVG use-after-free and IPC arbitrary file write. Credit to Pinkie Pie.

Admit it: Imagining that one of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cast is out there hacking away is a wonderful image. Also, fixing security exploits is never not a good thing.

(Google via TechCrunch)

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  • Anonymous

    God how emasculated are our teenage boys where they watch my little pony? You won femanazis, congrats.

  • Dylan Boyce

    Assuming the hacker is male…

  • diviwent

    That is about the most inane comment anyone could make.

  • flex

    you can call him what ever he has $60k more than u.

  • Idlethoughts

    White-hatting is by far one of the coolest ways to make money.

  • Anonymous

    No I have more than that it the bank thanks.

  • Anonymous

    because? Teenage boys shouldn’t be watching a cartoon designed for little girls. Just because a bunch of you have a little sub culture on the internet doesn’t make it right.

  • Anonymous

    of course the hacker is a male.

  • Anonymous

    To everyone who downvoted me, the whole world laughs at you. We all see you as freaks and losers for watching a cartoon designed for little girls. You are not normal. Get help.

  • Idlethoughts

    I see your covering all your bases when it comes to groundless gender stereotyping, thanks it make it easier to identify you as an idiot and move on.

  • Idlethoughts

    OK lets dissect for a moment what this show contains:
    -Talking animals in the place of people.
    Pretty common for cartoons.

    -Friendship
    A good value for all kids.
    -adventures
    Again pretty common for cartoons.
    -Magic
    Universal in most fantasy like settings.
    -Music
    Universally used in nearly all auditory media.
    -Pastel colors including pink and purple
    Admittedly considered “girly” to some people but still a pretty stupid reason to not watch it.

    Aside from the last one there really isn’t any reason to not watch the show, it being “a girl show” and thus unwatchable by guys is like saying that being a doctor is “a male job” and so there should be no female doctors, I’d like to think we’ve for the most part moved past that mentality as a society.

  • Anonymous

    No it’s a cartoon designed for girls under 10 years old. You are an adult watching this show. You are sad. Again, get help.

  • Anonymous

    No but the hacker is male. Most hackers are. Just because you want to live in a femnazi world doesn’t mean we ignore statistics now.

  • Idlethoughts

    Most does not equal all. And how would a world with more woman hackers be a “femnazi world”?

  • Idlethoughts

    Read that last paragraph again and then start running because the Overton window is leaving and you’ve got a long ways to catch up.

  • Idlethoughts

    Read my last paragraph. And now start running because the Overton window is leaving and you’ve got a long ways to catch up.

  • Idlethoughts

    Crud, duplication.

  • Anonymous

    Just because you are kidding yourself by validating this nonsense doesn’t make it any better. The whole world laughs at you. You aren’t normal. Stay away from kids please.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not groundless though. It’s the truth. Some things are male dominated it’s safe to make a generalization. This is one of those things. Love that indoctrination that a cartoon made for little girls is doing for you.

  • Anonymous

    Because you are an adult male defending your habit of watching a cartoon made for little girls. Hardcore feminists won. They took away your “manhood” and now you are just weak. This is the goal of militant feminism. It’s sad because you’ll defend this and not even realize how messed up you are.

  • idlethoughts

    Hilariously I neither like nor watch the show, I just thought you were being an unjustified, and probably bigoted, dick to the fandom. As it turns out you actually have some pretty weird neo-sexism going on, and quite frankly after a week of you not giving a single interesting argument for your case, I no longer care.
    So best of luck with your masculinity-stealing-cootie phobia, I’m clearly no longer needed to make you look like an idiot.

    Have a nice life. (well as nice as one gets with no hope of being in a relationship with a girl)