Google pwns: Chrome goes untouched at hacking confab

[steve2470]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-pwns-Chrome-goes-untouched-at-hacking-confab/1299788730

By Ed Oswald | Published March 10, 2011, 3:50 PM

For a third straight year, Google's Chrome browser has gone unhacked at a yearly event aimed at exposing the security flaws of today's modern browsers. The Mountain View, Calif. search company put its money where its mouth was too: last month it offered $20,000 to the first team able to hack the company's browser.

Pwn2Own is part of the CanSecWest security conference, held yearly by HP TippingPoint. Contestants are tasked with hacking each of the major browsers -- Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome -- and the first teams to do so not only win a $15,000 cash prize but also the computer they hacked the browser on.

With only one day left in the contest, nobody had successfully taken on the browser. According to contest organizer and HP TippingPoint security research team manager Aaron Portnoy, the first team was a no-show, while the only other team decided to work on a BlackBerry exploit instead.

"It doesn't look like anyone will try Chrome," Portnoy told Computerworld. While hackers may still yet register to attempt in the contest's closing days, it does not appear at this time that anyone would come forward. If they do, Google would only need to pony up a $10,000 bonus, as the hack needed to be completed on the first day for the full prize.

[aSpeckofDust]

1. Awesome track record.

They still fall victim to javascript hijackers though, but that's not a chrome browser fault.

[Vehl]

2. cool

Way better than safari

[steve2470]

3. 20 grand not enough to entice hackers to crack Google Chrome

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/03/20-grand-not-enough-to-entice-hackers-to-crack-google-chrome/1

By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
Mar 11, 2011
12:22 PM

Contestants participating in the Pwn2Own 2011 hacking contest at the CanSecWest cybersecurity conference this week in Vancouver, British Columbia, cracked into Safari 5.0.3 and Internet Explorer 8, the latest, most protected versions of Apple's and Microsoft's Web browsers.

No one even bothered to attempt to hack Google's Chrome browser, even with the search giant offering a $20,000 prize.

[notesdev]

4. LOL if they know a hack, it's worth more than $20k to reveal that they know it

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. and I think Google could do better then $20k

[walldude]

6. LMFAO... I tried Chrome.

It was without a doubt the biggest piece of shit browser I have ever encountered.

The goddamn thing is already a SPY. It doesn't need to be hacked.. It constantly sends information about your computer out over the internet even when the browser is closed. It uses more computing resources than any other browser on the market even when it's closed

That thing made my system run like it was dragging an anchor.

Never again.

[pintobean]

7. I won't install any Google software.

With their track record, I'm not giving them direct access to my computer.
Big brother.