Mark Dowd and Ben Hawkes have won a contest put on by Google to find exploitable security flaws in the company’s Native Client system. The pair discovered 12 exploitable issues, seven more than the next most successful team. Native Client is Google s open-source technology for running native code in Web applications. The contest attracted quite a bit of attention in the security community, as did the results. The winning team were attracted to the contest by the potential of the Native Client technology.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dowd-hawkes-win-google-native-client-attack-contest-070809/72924/