Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards

darthcamaro writes: Every year, browser vendors patch their browsers ahead of the annual HP Pwn2own browser hacking competition in a bid to prevent exploitation. The sad truth is that it's never enough. This year, security researchers were able to exploit fully patched versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Apple Safari in record time. For their efforts, HP awarded researchers $557,500. Is it reasonable to expect browser makers to hold their own in an arms race against exploits? "Every year, we run the competition, the browsers get stronger, but attackers react to changes in defenses by taking different, and sometimes unexpected, approaches," Brian Gorenc manager of vulnerability research for HP Security Research said.

Comments

Re:IE Fell first.

[Anonymous Coward]

IE Fell First...

But then George Lucas decided to edit it?

Re:IE Fell first.

[Anonymous Coward]

Shaka, When the Browsers Fell

dodged another bullet.

[nimbius]

I was at Pwn2own and NEVER ONCE experienced an exploit thanks to my browser of the future: Links.

now if youll excuse me i need to gloat...there are some arpanet users on gopher that are going to be mighty impressed by this.