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Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-took-so-long? dept.

Skuto writes "After offering a total prize fund of up to $1M for a successful Chrome hack, it seems Google got what it wanted (or not!). No more than 5 minutes into the Pwn2Own cracking contest team Vupen exploited 2 Chrome bugs to demonstrate a total break of Google's browser. They will win at least 60k USD out of Google's prize fund, as well as taking a strong option on winning the overall Pwn2Own prize. It also illustrates that Chrome's much lauded sandboxing is not a silver bullet for browser security."

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  1. Re:Obviously they were just waiting to start by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's because when other browsers are cracked first it shows they are insecure, while when it's Chrome it is only an experimental error.

  2. Re:Why even mention the time? by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not called pwn2groan!

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  3. Nice Linking by rudy_wayne · · Score: 5, Funny

    5 minutes into the Pwn2Own cracking contest team Vupen exploited 2 Chrome bugs to demonstrate a total break of Google's browser.

    Thanks for linking to a complete useless, pointless and content-free Twitter post.