Chrome Hacked at Pwn2Own and Pwnium Contests

“Security researchers collected over $60,000 in prize money on
Wednesday for reporting new zero-day flaws in Google’s Chrome web
browser at the Pwn2Own and Pwnium security challenges held during
the CanSecWest conference.

Google’s Chrome browser survived the gauntlet of hacker
challenges at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge in 2011, but this year
it was the first to fall — and it took less than 5 minutes to do
it. The Pwn2Own Chrome exploit was popped by security research
group VUPEN.

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