Google disclosed this morning that Chrome on Chrome OS had in fact been exploited – albeit, unreliably. The same researcher that took Google’s money last year for exploiting Chrome, known publicly only as ‘PinkiePie’ was awarded $40,000 for exploiting Chrome/Chrome OS via a Linux kernel bug, config file error and a video parsing flaw.
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