Pwn2Own is run by the ZeroDay Initiative and invites human ethical hackers around the world to find vulnerabilities in specific products.<\/p>\n
Nearly $1.3m (\u00a3970,000) was awarded to hackers this year who collectively discovered 47 brand new hacking methods on various programmes, websites and software.<\/p>\n
The flaws have all been reported to grateful companies which are now fixing them before criminals can find the same holes.<\/p>\n
On day one of the contest, Chompie successfully demonstrated how to hack one system linked to Nvidia – wining $20,000.<\/p>\n
But she then said she had to enter what she called “zombie hacker mode” to prepare for the next day.<\/p>\n
“As soon as I won the first prize I ran back to my hotel room to keep working on the other one. I worked from 6pm til 6am and didn’t sleep,” she said.<\/p>\n
It was worth it, and footage from the event shows her looking happy and tired on stage as she successfully hacked into a Linux based system to win $50,000.<\/p>\n
Chompie described “zombie hacker mode” as being locked into research and testing for hours fulled by energy drinks and adrenaline, often wearing a black hoodie.<\/p>\n
“It’s not healthy,” she laughed, but she insisted it was necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pwn2Own is run by the ZeroDay Initiative and invites human ethical hackers around the world to find vulnerabilities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}