Hackers have defeated
Google Chrome for the first time in an annual
competition to test the security of the most popular
web browser.
A
group of
French hackers were able to bypass Google security features to gain
control of a
Windows PC in less than five
minutes
at the Pwn2own competition
in Canada.
Chrome had stood undefeated in the 2011 competition but a French firm,
Vupen defeated it this time.
“We wanted to show that Chrome was not unbreakable. Last year, we saw a
lot of headlines that no one could hack Chrome. We wanted to
make sure
it was the first to fall this year,” The Telegraph quoted firm’s
research head Chaouki Bekrar, as saying.
Bekrar said his team had worked for six weeks ahead of
the competition
to explore vulnerabilities.
He added that his company had also devised a procedure to hack into
Firefox and Internet Explorer, but wanted to first demonstrate that
Chrome was not invincible.
Vupen had earlier used two previously unknown vulnerabilities to beat
Chrome's security, which is perceived to be stronger than rivals
Firefox and Internet Explorer because of its use of “sandboxing”.
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Vupen said it would keep details of how it bypassed Google's sandbox
technology private "for our customers".
Original Source By
Hindustan Times