Emailing "Hack a Phone for 10 Grand?"
Research firm
TippingPoint DVLabs has a prize of $10,000 to award to someone who can
hack a mobile phone without touching it.
The company will hold the Pwn2Own contest at its
CanSecWest Applied Security Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Contestants will have the opportunity to hack an iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry device.
In her
blog post, Terri Forslof, TippingPoint's manager of security response, says the winning hacker can break into the phone via e-mail, SMS text, or Web browsing.