At the recently held Pwn2Own hacking convention, Google Chrome was the only major browser to stand up to the 3 days of brutal hacking attempts by professionals from across the nation. At Pwn2Own, hackers and other pros are paid prizes between $10,o00 to $15,000 along with their cracking system, to break into different web browsers listed below. Hacking into a select few mobiles phones was also on the agenda.

While Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari were cracked within minutes on Day 1, Chrome was able to stand firm for all 3 day on various platforms, especially on the the very insecure Windows XP. Definitely a good achievement for the new browser, however critics say that because only 5-11% of people use Chrome and with the fact that it’s still very new on the market, hackers have either not been able to find exploits yet or just haven’t seriously taken the time to try and crack Chrome.

Surprisingly Opera was among the top few browsers  being hacked, but up to this day, Opera 10 has yet to be hacked into. Hopefully next year they will consider it. Among some of the hot PC prizes are the Alienware M11x, Sony Vaio 13″, HP Envy Beats 15″ and the Apple Macbook Pro 15″.

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Wow

nice post

finding it a bit difficult to digest/believe!!

besides, what standard of hackers we talking about here? cos the really good blackhats aint gonna go sit down in front of some cameras and folks in public in a bid to win acclaim and pocket change!!

u want actual hacking comps visit dark hat hack sites, man u go fear.
eg, the chink who won the comp 4 the first malware for win7. took the bugger all of 20 mins or even less!!

They have been able to hack all other browsers from time, so this is different.

Wow, this is amazing. What can I say, I'm not surprised, Chrome rocks!!

It's shocking to me and my bro, that some people still use Internet Explorer, no offence to them. But, I love Chrome - insane speed.

There is no browser that cannot be hacked, anti-viruses just give u a false sense of security, merely visiting malicious websites can have ur system taken over, in reality, the internet is not safe at all.