Comments on: CanSecWest Pwn2Own – Off To An Amazing (ly Insecure) Start!

By: Arah

Arah — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:39:24 +0000

In every single place in this blog and in the comments it has always been specifically named IE8 or Internet Explorer 8.

So yeah, I dare think I know what version of IE they broke.

Wanna guess which version it was? :p

By: AladdinHotelLasVegas

AladdinHotelLasVegas — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:52:55 +0000

You know what version of IE they break? the new 8? or the older 7?

By: Arah

Arah — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:39:06 +0000

So far I haven’t seen any real evidence that Google’s Chrome is taking any noticeable amount of browser market share. You’re right in that it’s too new. A lot of people are trying it, but market-wise it’s still an incredibly small niche. Which, small segment combined with newness is likely why no one even tried to exploit it. (Heck, for the same reason I was amazed that two whole people even tried Safari on a MacBook.) No one even bothered trying to crack Chrome on days 2 or 3 either. No one touched it, at all, in the entire Pwn2Own competition this year. Google Chrome is too much of an unknown still. It’s just too new.

By: CaliforniaSuperLotto

CaliforniaSuperLotto — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:43:21 +0000

I suppose that also because is so new, there is not a lot of ways to know how to find a particular vulnerability. Without been an expert, I think they must be working on this, because Chrome is taking a lot of the browser share of the others.

By: Arah

Arah — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:16:04 +0000

If anyone had hacked Chrome before the Sony Vaio was won, then they’d have won that laptop. But Nils nabbed the Vaio pretty early on by hitting IE8, so that incentive is missing now.

But even with the two laptops won, anyone who hacks a browser also wins $5000. So even with the laptop prizes gone, five grand is still there to win.

It was kind of unexpected that Chrome was the only browser not hacked in the first day. But then again it’s actually supposed to be rare to hack even one browser in the first day. That Safari was hacked twice, and IE8 and Firefox once each, made it a pretty oddly spectacular day 1.

Chrome likely was spared only because it’s such a new browser. We’ll have to see if anyone cracks it in day 2 or 3.

By: Posts about Apple Macbooks as of March 19, 2009

Posts about Apple Macbooks as of March 19, 2009 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:47:50 +0000

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By: CaliforniaSuperLoto

CaliforniaSuperLoto — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:33:05 +0000

just out of curiosity, there was something for hacking the Chrome?

By: Web Mirror | CanSecWest Pwn2Own - Off To An Amazing (ly Insecure) Start!

Web Mirror | CanSecWest Pwn2Own - Off To An Amazing (ly Insecure) Start! — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:44 +0000

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