TippingPoint’s Pwn2Own and Pwnium, Google’s offshoot, both begin today at CanSecWest, a security conference that runs March 7-9 in Vancouver, Canada. Google pulled out of the contest last week, saying it did not require participants to hand over their exploits or divulge all the bugs they used to hack Chrome. Instead, Google announced a separate event that will pay up to $60,000 for any exploit that leverages only bugs in Chrome. Google pledged to pay out as much as $1 million if researchers stepped forward with Chrome-only “zero-day” vulnerabilities.”]

