Google's Chrome leaves another hackathon unscathed
blogs.forbes.com
blogs.forbes.com
But given Google's high profile and the fact that the Pwn2Own competitors failed to hack Chrome two years running, we imagine that Chrome has to be gaining a sort of "sword-in-the-stone"-type reputation among security researchers.
almost immediately after writing this one?
Naysayers will also point out that Google patched 11 flaws in its browser just before the competition began. But Apple patched 19 bugs in Safari the same week, and that didn't prevent Apple hacker Charlie Miller from doing evil things to it for the third year in a row.
Also, the article does not explain the severity of the flaws - all 11 could have been simple bug fixes for all we know without research.
The headline might as well have been "Links leaves another hackathon unscathed." It's just as accurate.
What about Flock? Camino? Opera?
And that's not just because [Chrome] has small market share (5.6% according to Net Applications) Apple's Safari's market share is actually smaller, around 4.5%, and yet has fallen every year at Pwn2Own.