Chrome cracked in hacking contest

Google's Chrome fell to researchers' exploits Wednesday in both hacking challenges running this week at the CanSecWest security conference. Russian student Sergey Glazunov has netted himself $60,000 by discovering a new exploit that allowed him to break out of Chrome's 'sandbox' - thus allowing him to take control of a Windows 7 system.

"Congrats to long-time Chromium contributor Sergey Glazunov who just submitted our first Pwnium entry. Looks like it qualifies as a 'Full Chrome' exploit, qualifying for a $60k reward," says senior vice president in charge of Chrome and Google Apps Sundar Pichai on a company blog.

Vupen, the company that sells vulnerabilities and exploits to government customers, also succeeded in hacking Chrome this year to send a simple message: no software is unbreakable if hackers have enough motivation to prepare and launch an attack.

"We're working fast on a fix that we'll push via auto-update. This is exciting; we launched Pwnium this year to encourage the security community to submit exploits for us to help make the web safer. We look forward to any additional submissions to make Chrome even stronger for our users."

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